31. Chip makers have, for years, created tiny works of art on the unused space on the prototypes of silicon chips. 32. Designers can take a circuit diagram and photograph it onto a silicon chip. 33. Does this mean that scientists hope someday to create a direct interface between a silicon chip and one of the main engines of thought? 34. Embedded in the card is a silicon chip and a tiny transmitter. 35. Engineers have long lusted after a material that could manipulate light the way silicon chips organize electricity. 36. Etching structures into silicon chips , these experts argue, represents a leapfrog approach to miniaturization, while the Japanese approach is incremental. 37. Engineers in the United States and Japan are starting to build computing systems that rise from the surface of silicon chips the size of a fingernail. 38. FASTER, MORE VERSATILE CHIP A silicon chip based on a new semiconductor material moves closer to market on Monday. 39. Flash memory is a specialized kind of silicon memory chip. 40. IBM and Hughes Electronics plan to announce a joint effort to base high-speed communications products on a silicon germanium chip. |