Intel paid Dell in the form of rebates as part of an agreement to ensure that Dell would not use computer chips made by Advanced Micro Devices in its personal computers and computer servers, according to the civil charges.
Mr. Farrell is just one of an increasing number of car owners using computer chips or software downloads to get better performance from their cars.
Although the payments were intended to keep Dell from using computer chips made by A.M.D., according to the S.E.C. charges, in 2003, Dell was in talks with Microsoft, A.M.D. and I.B.M. on a deal that would have had Dell take an ownership interest in A.M.D.
Chipping involves using computer chips on your person, or inside your body to exercise control over you.
It uses computer chips powered by a small trickle of current -- thousandths of an ampere -- to guide the flow of a torrent of thousands of amperes.
From there, he went to Bandai, where he was part of a team that developed a variety of popular gadgets using computer chips.
Correction: November 2 , 2001 Friday An article in Circuits yesterday about the use of computer chips to time marathon runners misspelled the surname of the head of the rules committee of U.S.A. Track and Field.
— In the computer world's equivalent of "The Amazing Race," three rival teams of computer researchers are working on new types of software needed to better use computer chips that can process many tasks at the same time.
Dr Molfino plans to employ the technology used to etch computer chips to create similar surfaces on her graspers.Once the problem of handling fabric has been solved, the next question is how to sew it into the right shape.
To do so, the pair turned to a technology called microfluidics, which borrows from the techniques used to make computer chips to produce devices that mix small amounts of liquid in precise ways.
