1. Although Mentor and Quickturn both sell products used to design chips, they are in different parts of the business. 2. Analog designs its chips in Massachusetts but farms out manufacturing to chip foundries in Asia. 3. Another kind of implantable brain chips are designed for motor skills, for instance, operating a robotic arm. 4. But since the chips can be designed for so many purposes, Affymetrix has formed collaborations with several leading biologists to find new uses for the chips. 5. Celeron represents a fundamental shift by Intel, which in the past has not designed chips for specific segments of the market. 6. Clare says it will find work by offering the facility as a foundry to make chips designed by other companies. 7. Currently, it is virtually the same process chip makers follow when designing new chips. 8. Dham had been head of the original group that designed the chip, which was found to have a bug that resulted in incorrect answers in certain complicated computations. 9. His company, Cray Research, designed custom chips called vector processors, which sold mostly to the U.S. government. 10. How do you think they design new chips? |