A tiny wafer of silicon used to make an integrated circuit; a microchip.
‘Each processor is constructed on a single silicon chip, so the supercomputer is essentially 12, 288 interconnected chips.’
‘Much of our electronics could soon be replaced by photonics, in which beams of light flitting through microscopic channels on a silicon chip replace electrons in wires.’
‘Chips are now so small that atomic-level defects on a silicon chip can cause power leakage up to 100 times the normal level, he said.’
‘Diamonds can also resist voltages up to around 200 volts, compared to around 20 volts for a silicon chip.’
‘Moore remains sceptical that nanotechnology will replace the silicon chip.’
‘Hitachi has developed a silicon chip for security applications so small that it can even be embedded in money.’
‘Moore's Law states that the transistor density of a silicon chip will double every two years, allowing a corresponding increase in processor speed.’
‘Professor Warwick has already experimented with a silicon chip transponder surgically implanted in his arm to determine the likelihood of a future with implant technology.’
‘In 1998, Warwick shocked the international science community when he had a silicon chip transponder surgically implanted into his arm.’
‘MicroVue's display consists of a silicon chip with more than a million pixels etched onto its surface.’
‘Meanwhile, the British have also developed a silicon chip, called Bookmark, that broadcasts a unique radio frequency which can be tracked with a simple radio receiver.’
‘They had to devise a mathematical model of how the hippocampus performs under all possible conditions, build that model into a silicon chip, and then interface the chip with the brain.’
‘A current example is a digital camera on a chip that includes the imager, all control electronics, and an analog-to-digital converter - all on the same silicon chip.’
‘Patients would be able to administer the vaccine themselves by pressing a silicon chip embedded with 400 microscopic needles onto the back of their hand for a few seconds.’
‘The research group of California Institute of Technology biophysicist Stephen Quake has built a silicon chip that can function as a mini chemistry lab.’
‘A silicon chip now in development could help restore the short-term memories of people suffering from strokes, epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease.’
‘Scientists have developed the first artificial region of the brain - a silicon chip that mimics an area that controls memory, mood and awareness.’
‘To make the mirrors, researchers at the University of California, San Diego etched each side of a silicon chip so that one side appeared green and the other red.’
‘Cell phones have at least two chips - a nonsilicon one for processing wireless transmissions, and a silicon chip for everything else.’
‘The silicon chip is the backbone of the semiconductor industry.’
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