
London: After 50 years of tectonic improvements, the microchip may be finally be reaching its limits. April 25 marks the 50th anniversary of the patent for a silicon integrated circuit, awarded to Robert Noyce, an electronics engineer who was later nicknamed "the mayor of Silicon Valley." Decades later we are still living in the revolution that began almost immediately, but there are growing signs that Moore's Law - the famously...

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London: You seem to think your iPad is pretty cool? Wait for a new chip that will help make even more advanced generation of 'super smartphones'. ARM Holdings, the UK microchip unit behind the success of Apple's mobile devices, said its new chip, code-named Eagle, would allow Apple and other mobile phone makers, to create phones with five times the "brain power" of current models. Ian Drew, ARM's marketing director,...

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