Toshiba also has tied itself to Sony by helping develop the chip for the next-generation PlayStation game console.
We would particularly like to thank S. Masri for assistance in developing the ChIP protocol.
QED, based in Santa Clara, Calif., with 104 employees as of March, has focused on developing the MIPS chip architecture for networking applications, and has among its stable of customers Cisco Systems csco and Lucent Technologies lu, which use QED chips in routers and switches.
Similarly, Lucent developed the best chips for a kind of communications technology called asynchronous transfer mode, or A.T.M., which is the foundation of many modern networks.
Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said it had developed a version of the chip for large companies and technical installations that would cut the cost of a server using it to under $7,000, a significant price point for a high-performance machine.
Sematech plays the leading role in developing the basic architecture for computer chips.
The campaign is significant for Hewlett-Packard, which developed the Itanium chip with Intel, and for Sun Microsystems, the company with the most to lose if the Itanium technology prevails.
As demand for the PlayStation 3 has picked up, Sony has begun to recover the costs of developing a new chip for the game console, analysts said.
Our researches demonstrated the feasibility and simplicity of the newly developed microfluidic chip for chemical single-cell analysis.
Google built its own AI processor to power bots while Apple is said to be secretly developing a dedicated chip for the iPhone.
