Veterinarians inject microchips into animals as a tracking device, and a Swedish startup recently started implanting microchips into employees.
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There are clues about possible targets beyond biotech and microchips.
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He thought microchips could be a solution, in due time.
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It makes microchips, screens, memory and all manner of components.
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With quantum computing, you deliver information to electrons instead of microchips.
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Coca-Cola uses microchips to track the whereabouts of its bottles.
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Silicon accounts for 6 percent of the phone, the microchips inside.
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Many technical problems aren't like microchips (with consistent Moore's Law progress).
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Ninety-nine percent of shelters and veterinary clinics have scanners for microchips.
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The ethical dilemmas will become bigger the more sophisticated the microchips become.
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But let's suppose that microchips turn out to be the right stuff.
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These include commercial aircraft, robotics, 5G mobile phone communications and computer microchips.
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A world of microchips Toumazou has pioneered a wave of multidisciplinary study and discovery, fashioning innovative uses for microchips in the fields of electronics, biology, genetics and health care -- and uniting the once-separate worlds of electronics and biology.
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Cars, servers, microchips, it just depends when your personal technology stack runs out.
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Construction workers, cab drivers, landscapers—they've all been replaced by metal and microchips.
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For years, the company has dominated the market for microchips for mobile devices.
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Million-dollar American weapons rely on microchips sourced from firms around the globe.
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And though the business is profitable, staying competitive in microchips is notoriously expensive.
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It also has several built-in microchips and fail-safes to ensure your safety.
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These are real-world Homeward Bound tales, and many are possible because of microchips.
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The idea would be to ban Chinese investment in certain U.S. industries, including microchips.
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For the sake of argument, let's assume microchips are the wrong substrate for consciousness.
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It also sources technology like microchips from the US for its cloud computing business.
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The company forecast better-than-expected current-quarter revenue as demand for microchips stabilizes.
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China's government is investing lavishly to build out rival makers of microchips and memory.
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But it has also tried kneecapping Chinese producers of microchips, surveillance gear and supercomputers.
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These microchips allegedly afforded the PLA with backdoor access to whatever was on those servers.
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Identity cards containing microchips will ensure compliance, a Big Brother touch that makes some nervous.
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Some Christians, meanwhile, fear that microchips are "marks of the beast" foretold in the Bible.
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Modern microchips are now embedded into everything from cars and washing machines to fighter planes.
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Like company's already-available cat flap and pet feeder, this new product uses pets' microchips.
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Then, they sell them on—without the correct jabs, paperwork, or microchips—for around £450.
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Higher tariffs on American goods raise the cost of essential imports like soybeans and microchips.
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We can turn the hose on a car, but not on sensors, microchips and microrobots.
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Microchips can store an identification number for the pet and contact information for the owner.
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The names will be etched on microchips and make the journey to Mars next summer.
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A local firm here made good today on its vow to embed employees with microchips.
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Civilization is built not just on microchips, but also on arts, ideas and the humanities.
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Delays on next-generation microchips, which have plagued the company for months, certainly aren't helping.
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The battery is long-lasting, the phone looks good, Chinese microchips are the most precious!
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Instead, Krzanich stood in the Oval Office holding a sheet of microchips next to President Trump.
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Except these microchips get placed into room-sized refrigerators cooled to temperatures just above absolute zero.
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Stung by fraud, he says his bottles will be equipped with microchips to assure their provenance.
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It is primarily used by electronic design engineers in the production of circuit boards and microchips.
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To replace the loss of Qualcomm, ZTE will receive microchips from Taiwan-based chipmaker Mediatek instead.
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The report claims that Apple and Amazon discovered the microchips and reported them to US authorities.
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Unlike Intel, ARM forgoes the high margins — and equally high production costs — of directly manufacturing microchips.
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And forget microchips -- MIT says this technology could be used to develop even smaller "nanochip" electronics.
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The company, a global name in smartphones and microchips, has been suffering from a leadership vacuum.
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We have shifted from an obsession with LEDs, microchips, and sensors towards a focus on nature.
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The program covers 10 sectors, including aircraft manufacturing, electric cars, robotics, computer microchips and artificial intelligence.
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Cameras and security systems have since been installed in the library and many books have microchips.
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One Wisconsin-based tech firm is offering to install rice-size microchips in its employees' hands.
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To play in the league, players must hack the implanted microchips that otherwise track their movements.
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More extreme biohackers have implanted microchips and magnets under their skin to link themselves with computers.
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Even though writing about on the business of microchips or plastics might be just as relevant.
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Microchips, GPS, and of course the internet all wouldn't have been possible without federal funding and research.
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Phasor's system works similarly, but uses an electronically controlled array of microchips to perform the same task.
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The conglomerate, whose products include smartphone screens, memory and microchips, has been broadly exposed to economic weakness.
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Mr. Lazarov's career involved developing and maintaining technology that employed lasers to measure the thickness of microchips.
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The move was effectively a death sentence because ZTE relied heavily on American microchips and other technology.
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Players in Sunday's Super Bowl already have microchips in their shoulder pads transmitting data to the coaches.
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The projects have become markedly more sophisticated, making more modern microchips, memory chips or flat-panel displays.
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Consumer electronics — from fake earbuds and smartphones to hoverboards and microchips — accounted for another 10% of seizures.
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When Swedish rail officials began scanning passengers' microchips, they saw LinkedIn profiles rather than evidence of ticket purchases.
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Amazon and Apple network servers may have been compromised by Chinese spy microchips, a Bloomberg Businessweek report claims.
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The plan, according to city legislation released on Tuesday, would allow horses to be tracked using embedded microchips.
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The brightest of them is ARM Holdings, whose microchips power cars, drones and most of the world's smartphones.
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In most cases, the computers rely on a mix of microchips from the American manufacturers Intel and Nvidia.
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It is battery-powered and contains microchips rather than piezoelectric crystals, so it usually won't break if dropped.
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Then, they add the metal contacts, which would attach to wires, and finally slice the wafer into microchips.
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At one point, the company controlled 70 percent of the market for microchips, according to the European Commission.
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It trails the United States significantly in crucial areas like microchips, software design and high-end precision manufacturing.
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There, a team of engineers is developing leading-edge microchips to compete with the finest made by Intel.
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Employees are not required to get the microchips, and Westby told the station there is no GPS tracking.
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The blockade means these companies can no longer buy crucial components such as advanced microchips from US firms.
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I started working in the United States as an engineer, designing microchips, microelectronics, for a company called Burroughs.
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The space agency is giving people the opportunity to have their names put on the rover (etched on microchips).
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China can buy more farm products, energy products such as gas and oil, as well as microchips, he said.
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Tech titan Qualcomm is providing much of the project's computing power, using the company's latest microchips and modem technology.
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Scientists have been implanting animals with microchips for years — to help track down lost pets or monitor endangered species.
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Whoever microchips the pet takes the owner's contact details, which are inputted with the microchip number into a database.
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The earthquake in Japan revealed that the country produces the bulk of chemicals and other materials to make microchips.
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Internal microchips and digital tattoos could replace smart wristbands, payment devices and the like in the next few years.
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Toshiba's microchips, a type known as NAND flash memory, are seen as a more valuable asset than TV screens.
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We can also thank Apollo for earthquake-resistant engineering, CAT scanners, microchips, shock-absorbing footwear and scratch-resistant lenses.
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She rejects the idea of emergence: that if you hook together enough insensate components (neurons, microchips), consciousness will appear.
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Later, during the Cold War, microchips developed by industry pioneers like Fairchild Semiconductor found their way into ballistic missiles.
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But using robots to make microchips is an order of magnitude easier than automating the picking of a strawberry.
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The mandate entailed investing billions of dollars of government funding into areas such as wireless communications, microchips and robotics.
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Then, over the next two years, they packed the same circuit design into a hand-held casing using microchips.
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According to one Buenos Aires-based football club, just stick microchips in spectators' arms and scan the bad apples away.
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Last year China's manufacturers, both domestic and foreign-owned, consumed $145 billion-worth of microchips of all kinds (see chart).
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Ben Libberton, a microbiologist at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, says hackers could conceivably gain huge swathes of information from embedded microchips.
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Currently, British pets can get the passports, provided owners make sure the pets have microchips and are vaccinated against rabies.
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Since then, relentless innovation and billions of dollars in private sector R&D have created a world run by microchips.
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Microchips are rice-sized chips that are scannable and contain your pet's unique number, it's like their social security number.
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The Furby's motors, microchips, and plastic frame—its guts—are discarded, leaving the finished product effectively "dead," in Furby terms.
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The husband-and-wife team pioneered paper microchips that are far cheaper and more eco-friendly than traditional silicon versions.
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In the beginning, around eight years ago, we were very fond of microchips and also showed that to our audience.
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The largest city, Auckland, is considering a plan to euthanize cats without microchips that are found in protected wildlife sites.
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Beijing aims to make the country a leader in the manufacturing of advanced products, including computer microchips and commercial aircraft.
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Seeking to lead in robotics and microchips, it is also pushing foreign companies in joint ventures to share their technology.
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Under Mr. Obama, its scrutiny scotched Chinese deals for a European lighting-panel maker and an American manufacturer of microchips.
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This device stores information for up to 32 microchips and it remembers their identity even if the batteries are removed.
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When she looks down at her hands, she can see slightly raised bumps where she believes she's been implanted with microchips.
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This polysilicon, known as electronic-grade, is destined to be made into the wafers that serve as the canvases for microchips.
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About 3,000 Swedes have opted to insert grain-of-rice-sized microchips beneath the skin between their thumbs and index fingers.
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PUFs are most often found in microchips, where they're used to verify that different silicon components have come from authorized factories.
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But of the $145bn-worth of microchips China consumed in 2015, only a tenth were truly domestic; foreign technology remains superior.
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It's all in the movement and the design, which is somehow harder for me to grasp than microchips and circuit boards.
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Chinese growth feeds into a variety of global prices such as oil, metals and microchips, driving investment and spending decisions worldwide.
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The report, citing numerous government officials, said the microchips allegedly found in Super Micro equipment have been under investigation for years.
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BOEING, ITS STOCK LOOKING LIKE IT'S GOING TO OPEN DOWN 6%, CATERPILLAR DOWN 4%, THE MICROCHIPS, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES DOWN 5%.
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If you drive a car, it likely depends on dozens of internal microchips just to get you out of the driveway.
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"Literally 100 percent of the early microchips went to defense use," says Leslie Berlin, project historian for Stanford's Silicon Valley archives.
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Samsung has largely benefited from the new mobile world, as growing demand for smartphones bolstered sales of its displays and microchips.
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So Moore's Law is a proxy for technology: This being the power of microchips, we'll double it roughly every 24 months.
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As artificial intelligence creates large-scale unemployment, some professionals are attempting to maintain intellectual parity by adding microchips to their brains.
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The market for the 90 and 130-nanometre microchips it produces has significantly shrunk in recent years, according to the source.
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But without access to American software, microchips and other parts, its ability to manufacture smartphones and network gear is seriously crippled.
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The pairing suggests a polarized binary, but the images of nature she's chosen are as artificial as the microchips are handmade.
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Some countries' biometric passports contain information like fingerprints and iris scans in their microchips, although this is not the case everywhere.
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Nobody knows about the real investigation because the Chinese government's keeping it secret by manipulating the microchips in our Chinese-made smartphones.
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The microchips, says Osterlund, can be programed to speak to other networked devices, like coffee makers, speakers or doors with electronic locks.
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Micro-tracking implantations already exist in our world: just take the microchips that are often implanted in dogs and cats, Quackenbush says.
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What happened: U.S. investigators found that microchips were installed in servers used by various companies while they were being manufactured in China.
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Modern microchips have billions of components and are made in ultra-advanced factories that cost tens of billions of dollars to build.
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Every year, microchips get smaller, sensors get more powerful and the hardware that's floating around in space can be rather easily improved.
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He handed over three microchips that he said had been removed from the tigers; such chips are used to track endangered animals.
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So Hansson started testing different kinds of materials developed by Mercene Labs, whose products are used in anything from floors to microchips.
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He pulls the item from his mouth and his friend says, "I think it's one of those microchips" used to identify animals.
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When voltages are applied to these microchips, they create the electric field which traps the ions and levitates them above the microchip.
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Westerhof saved him with her pig ambulance, a former bus converted into a mobile operating room that neuters, microchips, and tests pigs.
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The two countries are involved in a widening political and economic dispute that could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays.
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American companies including Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom sell Huawei microchips and other specialized parts that go into its smartphones and telecom equipment.
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Companies that specialize in microchips, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and other advanced technologies say such plans could siphon away expertise, research and revenue.
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One military industry magazine called the material the biggest thing since silicon, which is now commonly used to make the transistors in microchips.
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Made from nickel, the Rosetta Wearable Disk, measures just 0.78-inches across and is manufactured using a similar process used for making microchips.
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Rescuers then endeavor to return them to their rightful owners if they have identification or microchips, as many are often stolen household pets.
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DeBeers, for instance, uses its manufactured diamonds on silicon microchips with a zero carbon footprint, thanks to its use of solar power credits.
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So it has no institutions comparable to DARPA, the American military-research institution where technologies like microchips, GPS and the internet were born.
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At Tesla's Autonomy Day event for investors on Monday, CEO Elon Musk made a characteristically big deal out of the company's new microchips.
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Microchips, the backbone of computers, are just all the parts of the circuit like wires and transistors etched into a piece of semiconductor.
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As of now, the chips only have 24 transistors on them—comparable to much older microchips rather than those found in modern computers.
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SILICON VALLEY, the heartland of America's technology industry, takes its name from the chemical element that is the most important ingredient in microchips.
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DeBeers, for instance, uses its manufactured diamonds on silicon microchips with a zero carbon footprint, thanks to its use of solar power credits.
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San Jose, California-based Super Micro strongly denied that it sold servers to customers contained malicious microchips in the motherboards of those systems.
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To prevent theft, plants have been fitted with microchips; but wily poachers use X-ray scanners to find them and hack them out.
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This would allow for connection speeds between the microchips that are up to 100,000 times faster than those currently achievable using fiber optics.
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Just consider the groundbreaking innovations that resulted from the Apollo program — from CAT scans and computer microchips to miniature cameras and cordless tools.
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"Microchips, butter, you want to use them up quickly, but whisky – a five-year-old is always better than a one-year-old."
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Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook called for Bloomberg to retract a report claiming that Chinese spies smuggled malicious microchips into a company server.
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Alibaba also has investments in sports content, microchips and facial recognition technology and has been positioning itself as a serious player in cloud computing.
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Datamars makes tags containing electronically stored information, so-called radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchips, which can be used to automatically identify animals and goods.
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported last year that the Chinese government hacked into the manufacturing process of data centers and implanted tiny microchips into the equipment.
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But the government has already indicated that the scope would be extended to the fields of artificial intelligence, microchips, space technology and data storage.
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Poulton and Watts compare it to the fabrication of microchips, which shrunk electronic systems that used copper wire and components onto ever-smaller transistors.
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Manufacturers install microchips into their cartridges and frequently issue firmware updates to prevent the use of third-party ink, which can be more affordable.
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Immigrants not only built the first microchips in Silicon Valley, but they built these companies into the tech titans they are known as today.
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Along the tunnel sits billions of dollars in pipes and magnets, tangled colored wires, microchips, and computers housed in concrete lined, house-sized sheds.
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In particular, the company has invested for many years in producing its own microchips, a key area in which most Chinese firms are laggards.
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For years, chip companies like Intel have sold widely available microchips to supercomputer makers in China, even some with close ties to the military.
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If microchips are the wrong stuff, then A.I.s themselves wouldn't have this design ceiling on intelligence augmentation — but they would be incapable of consciousness.
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Because the companies make wide use of an array of American parts, like microchips, the bill could have a major impact on their business.
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Ultimately, the goal isn't to erase the decades of progress made by silicon microchips—perhaps companies can integrate carbon nanotube pieces into existing architectures.
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The many local Xinjiang police bureaus on the list buy commercial American technology like Intel microchips and Microsoft Windows software, according to procurement documents.
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Employees at a Wisconsin technology company are volunteering to have microchips implanted in their hands to make unlocking doors and paying for food easier.
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Bloomberg Businessweek dropped a bombshell report earlier this month claiming that Chinese spies had installed tiny chips of their own on microchips from Super Micro.
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Thomas Reardon puts a terrycloth stretch band with microchips and electrodes woven into the fabric—a steampunk version of jewelry—on each of his forearms.
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It sounds like a B-rated science fiction movie: wallabies implanted with microchips opening their own personal pet doors when they want to come home.
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In October, Bloomberg published a report claiming that Chinese spies were able to inject malicious microchips into servers belonging to companies like Apple and Amazon.
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About 203 percent are stony meteorites, which are composed of the same stuff that's in beach sand and microchips — silicate minerals like quartz and feldspar.
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Card companies, which cover the costs of fraudulent credit card spending, started adding the microchips more than a decade ago to reduce fraud-related losses.
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The U.S. military developed drone technology throughout the 20th Century for reconnaissance and other purposes, adding microchips for better wireless control and longer-lasting batteries.
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The result, programmed onto blank microchips known as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), is a level of accuracy that mere software emulation could never achieve.
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Card companies, which cover the costs of fraudulent credit card spending, starting adding the microchips more than a decade ago to reduce fraud-related losses.
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A 2004 Nature article described a method of DNA synthesis, essentially printing out strands onto specially-designed microchips, that reduced the costs by a thousandfold.
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US tech exporters of goods like microchips will lose customers; US tech companies will see the pool of potential investors in their enterprises grow smaller.
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It also supports efforts to build up China's high-tech industries like microchips and self-driving cars to make sure the economy will stay competitive.
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Washington has now turned China's reliance on American microchips against Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant that the Trump administration has labeled a national security threat.
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The book shows that Mr. Xi was determined that China master its own microchips, operating systems and other core technologies well before this recent quarrel.
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The Japanese company makes products as diverse as rice cookers and industrial turbines, but microchips have earned the biggest profits for Toshiba in recent years.
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But Moscow's efforts to manufacture Russian microchips and other high tech products have been thwarted by U.S. sanctions against a string of Russian tech companies.
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What happened in Rotterdam is the latest version of a now-familiar story: Like microchips and smartphones, ALPR technology is flipping from exotic to ubiquitous.
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Our proliferation of microchips and circuit boards isn't sucking down electricity, fortunately; these devices are telling other energy-powered gizmos how to be more efficient.
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Hawking and Milner think it's possible to design such tiny spaceships because of Moore's law, which dictates microchips will keep getting smaller and more powerful.
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Apple was recently dragged into controversy, however, after Bloomberg reported that tiny microchips used for surveillance had infiltrated data center equipment run by Apple and Amazon.
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Bitmain designs different microchips specialized for mining cryptocurrenies and for artificial intelligence applications, as well as manufacturing cryptocurrency and AI hardware, and managing crypto mining farms.
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"This is just another great reminder about the importance of microchips and making sure your dogs chip is registered and with current information," the shelter added.
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Osterlund is the founder of Biohax, a Swedish company that specializes in injecting small microchips, about the size of a grain of rice, under people's skin.
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Intel said China's economy was consuming fewer microchips than it had expected, adding to concerns that an industrywide slowdown could persist until the end of 2019.
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The investigation found that Elemental servers, which were assembled by Super Micro, were tainted with tiny microchips that were not part of their design, Bloomberg said.
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Thanks to years of refining the manufacturing processes for electronics, producing these metalenses will be relatively easy and cheap using the same techniques used for microchips.
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Three Square Market, a Wisconsin-based vending machine company, announced today it will become the first U.S. company to implant microchips in some of its employees.
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Ray O'Neil, chief ranger of Saguaro National Park, said microchips have been placed in about 1,000 cactuses in areas of the park close to boundary roads.
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Bitmain designs different microchips specialized for mining cryptocurrencies and for artificial intelligence applications, as well as manufacturing cryptocurrency and AI hardware, and managing crypto mining farms.
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In 1947 Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley invent the transistor, the building block enabling many digital technologies including portable radios, touchtone phones, computer microchips and color television.
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In 220 Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley invent the transistor, the building block enabling many digital technologies including portable radios, touchtone phones, computer microchips and color television.
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To learn more about microchips and how you can get one of these low-cost lifesavers for your pet, visit the American Veterinary Medical Association's website.
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ON JULY 18th ARM, a Cambridge-based company that designs microchips, announced that it was to be bought by Japan's Softbank for £24 billion ($32 billion).
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Take semiconductors, for example: China is a major customer for microchips, which are used to power computers, smartphones and an ever-widening array of other electronics.
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In this case, if you replaced one or more parts of your brain with microchips, you would diminish or end your life as a conscious being.
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The United States has long distrusted the company, which makes smartphones, microchips and telecommunications equipment, considering it a possible conduit for espionage and sabotage of Americans.
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More than 275,21 Swedes have implanted microchips in their hands, allowing them to pay for rail travel and food, or enter keyless offices, with a wave.
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These researchers have equipped jellyfish with microchips and electrodes to turbocharge their swimming pace, from a leisurely 2 centimeters per second to a less leisurely 6.
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Samsung Electronics, which makes microchips, screens and smartphones, is run by professional managers who are used to operating on their own without Mr. Lee's direct involvement.
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Hawking and Milner think it's possible to design such tiny spaceships because of Moore's law, which dictates that microchips will keep getting smaller and more powerful.
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Photo: Getty ImagesSuper Micro has found no evidence of malicious microchips on its motherboards, according to a statement by the company that was released to customers today.
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The move echoes the gloomy prediction made by bigger rival Texas Instruments, which indicated that the slowdown in demand from microchips may last a few more quarters.
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"Just like 20 years ago, having a cell phone wasn't a regular thing yet, today it's not normal to implant microchips into your body," he told me.
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Mr. Supitpong said that the three tigers suspected to be missing were still on the premises, and that he had no knowledge of any microchips being removed.
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Intel said China's economy was consuming fewer microchips than it had expected, adding to concerns that an industry-wide slowdown could persist until the end of 2019.
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The studio itself is more tech hub than jewelry workshop with its clean long white tables, Apple computers and microchips instead of the traditional jewelry makers' tools.
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Advanced Micro Devices, Intel and Qualcomm began working with Chinese organizations in microchips, which China imports in huge quantities to put into smartphones, computers and other electronics.
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Apple revealed that its new iPhone 2499 will come with two back cameras, including an ultra wide-angle lens and the next generation of microchips, the A220.
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It is emblematic of China's challenge as it seeks to become a leader in aerospace and other critical technologies like electric cars, advanced microchips and artificial intelligence.
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The unusual move is sure to spotlight the growing tensions between the United States and China over the latter country's ambitions to become a power in microchips.
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In 2013 Beijing announced a major initiative to expand the country's ability to produce microchips, which act as the brains of everything from guided missiles to smartphones.
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But now, barred from using American microchips, software and other components, ZTE has been facing the prospect of being unable to manufacture its telecommunications equipment and smartphones.
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The reverent gaze once reserved for textiles is here applied to microchips, the silicon nodes and semiconductors becoming like the threads and patterns in an intricate tapestry.
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It allows American companies to sell certain products that don't pose a security risk to Huawei, such as software updates and microchips used for older wireless equipment.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has a contract with the CIA, was investigating a company called Elemental Technologies for a potential acquisition when it allegedly uncovered the microchips.
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The plans to build the cutting-edge plant comes amid the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, which includes concerns about China expanding the production of microchips.
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The plans to build the cutting-edge plant comes amid the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, which includes concerns about China expanding the production of microchips.
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The company's smartphones and network gear rely on American microchips and software, which means it could need to redesign as much as 90 percent of its product line.
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In the aftermath of a Wisconsin firm embedding microchips in employees last week to ditch company badges and corporate logons, the Internet has entered into full-throated debate.
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Credit cards and passports are filled with microchips brimming with your personal information—and give off radio waves to any nearby sleazebag that wants to steal your identity.
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So then Axe and Taylor find the company that is gonna be screwed over by this fake microchip company's inability to supply microchips and they short the stock.
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Keep in mind that microchips are manufactured in ultra-clean environments because even a hair or flake of dandruff can compromise the performance of the hardware it drives.
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There are concerns that the row could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays, while undercutting crucial collaboration on fending off North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
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Unlike film reels or microchips, which are relatively fragile and must be stored under certain conditions, the piece of quartz glass is "surprisingly hard to destroy," Microsoft said.
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Cut off from American microchips and other parts, ZTE halted production and was near collapse until President Trump intervened and softened the punishment to appease the Chinese leadership.
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But Chinese companies have used slick marketing and celebrity endorsements in hopes of giving their products more personality, while promoting advances in camera technology, battery life and microchips.
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In July, the same court banned the import of some microchips by Micron Technology Inc into China, citing violation of patents held by Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp (UMC).
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And China has protested Washington's punitive measures against ZTE, a Chinese telecommunications company, that threaten to deprive it of badly needed American-made microchips, software and other equipment.
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The article, reported by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, alleges that a Chinese military unit inserted tiny spy microchips at subcontracted Chinese factories that supplied Supermicro with components.
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Though not a household name like silicon, gallium nitride, often referred to by its abbreviation GaN, could be used to construct a new generation of powerful and versatile microchips.
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Some have suggested that microchips could even be the Mark of the Beast, a sign described in Revelations to identify those who side with the Devil during apocalyptic times.
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Companies like Dangerous Things, a biohacking supply company based in Seattle that sells microchips and all the gear needed to insert the devices under the skin, have sprouted up.
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The initial Bloomberg report alleged that Chinese spies were able to infiltrate critical tech infrastructure belonging to companies like Apple and Amazon by injecting tiny microchips inside Supermicro servers.
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Officials were seen to rarely observe the dogs passing through, instead allowing owners to scan their own animals' microchips and checking that the ID number matched the accompanying documentation.
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That move and STMicro's positive guidance contrasted with a gloomy prediction from rival Texas Instruments, which said the deceleration in demand from microchips may last a few more quarters.
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The comments in a blog post were the clearest signal from Microsoft that fixes for flaws in microchips from Intel and rivals described last week could meaningfully degrade performance.
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Once the eggs hatch, Lloret and the team capture, measure, and tag the crocodiles with microchips to monitor their development, before relocating them to increase the chance of survival.
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At the root of innovations like the smartphone and the flat-screen television are microchips that get ever faster, reducing the cost of gadgets even as their capabilities mushroom.
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Paper Microchips I found the Portuguese finalists, Elvira Fortunato and Rodrigo Martins, each trying to persuade the other to do the talking as I sat down to quiz them.
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On a separate track, Trump put the Chinese telecom giant Huawei on a list of companies that need special permission to buy U.S.-made microchips, software and other components.
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One of the blacklisted subsidiaries had formed a partnership with the American chip maker Advanced Micro Devices to create microchips that could satisfy security demands for Chinese government customers.
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In particular, the Trump administration has often criticized Beijing's ambitious plan to dominate cutting-edge technologies like advanced microchips, artificial intelligence and electric cars, called Made in China 2025.
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In recent years, China has announced plans to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into building up key domestic tech industries such as microchips, artificial intelligence and electric cars.
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They believe things that are provably wrong — that the majority of job loss in America is from Mexicans and Chinese, when in fact it's from microchips and computers, i.e.
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None of the early suitors are from Japan — a remarkable turnabout for a country that controlled the majority of the market for many kinds of microchips a generation ago.
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This year, the Commerce Department added the company to an export blacklist, restricting its ability to use American-made parts and technology, including Qualcomm microchips and Google smartphone software.
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Such immense numbers become even more mind-boggling when you consider not only the intricacy of the actual manufacturing process but the conditions under which these microchips are made.
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Photo: GettyIn what could be the most important national security story of the decade, a new report alleges that China has been installing tiny microchips, roughly the size of a grain of rice, on the motherboards of countless servers imported into the U.S.The revelations come from a new report by Bloomberg, which states that the clandestine microchips were first found by Amazon in 2015, which in turn reportedly alerted America's intelligence agencies.
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The small tags, which are briefly activated by the radio frequency of a reader, have been adopted and used everywhere from pet microchips to optional implantable chips for company employees.
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Gray or off-white in color, they looked more like signal conditioning couplers, another common motherboard component, than microchips, and so they were unlikely to be detectable without specialized equipment.
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The business that gave Silicon Valley its name — making microchips out of wafers pressed from the abundant crystalline element known as silicon — still matters a lot to the tech industry.
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The project consists of ten mandalas whose kaleidoscopic designs are created from repurposed batteries, electrical wires, light bulbs, microchips, laptops, TVs, vacuum cleaners, electronic toys, music players, phones, and more.
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To prevent components from being damaged—or melting—each of those microchips has its own spiky-looking heatsink, and an array of fans pushes hot air out of the machine.
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Making microchips for everything from cell phones to cars has long been central to the success of Singapore, the tiny trading island seen as a bellwether for the global economy.
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Earlier this year, an on-site investigation by National Geographic discovered that veterinarians were cutting legally mandated microchips out of the tigers, and that several animals had inexplicably gone missing.
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We often forget that Silicon Valley was built on the backs of US military budgets cranking out weapons of war and the microchips that would guide them to their destinations.
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Still, antitrust consultant Linley Gwennap said Intel likely could convince regulators to allow it to take over Broadcom, despite the size, since the companies largely make different types of microchips.
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Beijing recently stepped up enforcement of a prohibition on the sale or import of hardware and mobile devices containing Trusted Platform Module microchips, used for encrypting passwords and biometric data.
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But as it turns out, microchips and NI numbers are instruments of the devil—at least according to the country's Christian Orthodox fanatics, conspiracy theorists, and thriving far-right community.
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First, the Trump administration barred American technology companies from selling to Huawei, the Chinese maker of smartphones and telecommunications equipment, denying it access to vital software, microchips and other components.
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The central bank is testing digital currency, and more than 4,000 Swedes have implanted microchips in their hands, allowing them to pay for rail travel and food with a wave.
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China is gaining ground in a range of technologies that experts say could give the country an economic and military edge, including artificial intelligence, facial recognition, microchips and quantum computing.
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Texas Instruments forecast first-quarter revenue above market expectations on Wednesday on signs of stable demand for microchips, indicating that a prolonged slowdown in the semiconductor industry was bottoming out.
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In late 2016, when the Indian government invalidated much of the cash in circulation in the nation, rumors of new bills containing GPS-tracking microchips began making rounds on YouTube.
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TRADE WAR That move and STMicro's positive guidance contrasted with a gloomy prediction from rival Texas Instruments, which said the deceleration in demand from microchips may last a few more quarters.
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In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Bloomberg to retract its story alleging that Chinese spies compromised a company server through the use of malicious microchips.
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In the past, he's created looks that changed shape with the use microchips and animatronics, made dresses embedded with LEDs, and once created a coffee table that turned into a skirt.
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According to an explosive report from Bloomberg, nearly 30 of the US's top tech companies were infiltrated by Chinese spies by way of tiny, rice-sized microchips placed in their servers.
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It's hard to believe, but in the last few years, scientists have made great strides miniaturizing and recreating human organs on microchips, which researchers hope will help speed new drug development.
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Celltrion and a rival unit of Samsung aim to adapt the manufacturing skills that made South Korea a force in microchips and smartphones to making complex biotech drugs for international markets.
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Using a few tools like tin snips and a Dremel rotary tool, Rauff cuts and shapes the old camera's microchips and plastics, which he then fits together with glue and epoxy.
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CLEPA's Vavassori said Europe was lagging behind in the production of sensors and microchips, as well as batteries, and there was a risk in relying on Chinese supplies given geopolitical instability.
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Reducing foreign dependence: This year when ZTE, which relies on U.S.-made microchips and other equipment, had to shut down temporarily due to U.S. sanctions, Chinese concerns about foreign dependence deepened.
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In that time, according to documents from the Department of Homeland Security, federal agents also seized more than 7,000 items, including microchips and jet engine parts, set to be smuggled out.
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In return, the company — once a symbol of China's progress and engineering know-how — will be allowed to buy the American-made microchips, software and other tools it needs to survive.
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China is now gathering know-how in industries of the future like microchips and electric cars, often by pushing foreign companies attracted by the country's vast market into sharing their technology.
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Back in the 6900s, China discovered vast supplies of "rare earths" in large clay deposits in the country's south and west that are particularly valuable when used in superconductors and microchips.
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In 2016, American concerns over China's interest in microchips scotched some Chinese purchases, and last year Mr. Trump blocked the purchase of Lattice Semiconductors by a group with links to China.
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HONG KONG — China is spending billions of dollars on a major push to make its own microchips, an effort that could bolster its military capabilities as well as its homegrown technology industry.
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According to the report, Chinese spies placed microchips the size of a sharpened pencil tip in the Chinese-manufactured servers of one of the most prolific server-providers in the world, Supermicro.
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Mark Newman, a Sanford C. Bernstein analyst, said technological advantages in their microchips had increased earnings to the point where it would be tough for the firm to keep up the pace.
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And no law has ruled the Valley more profoundly than Moore's law, which holds that you can double the power of microchips — and therefore the processing power of computers — every two years.
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Equally important is that once trained for a particular object, the HyperSurfaces neural network-trained algorithms are able to run on dedicated microchips that don't require connection to the cloud for processing.
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LONDON, May 103 (Reuters) - Shares of European suppliers of microchips, sensors and circuitry to Apple fell on Wednesday after the smartphone company's much-awaited iPhone sales missed expectations in the second quarter.
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The report claimed that Chinese spies were able to place microchips in the companies' servers, allegedly giving the Chinese government backdoor access to some of the largest cloud platforms in the world.
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Super Micro has denied the claims, as have Apple and AWS, who were cited in the report as having received rogue microchips capable of spying in equipment made for their data centers.
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Osram, a technology group that builds microchips, digital lighting systems and sensors for the auto industry, has sparked bidding interest because of its potential as a supplier for connected and autonomous cars.
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The sectors are among 10 industries in Beijing's Made in China 2025 plan, which calls for extensive government support to expand China's production and self-sufficiency in everything from microchips to robotics.
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Atlas Copco's vacuum unit's has grown rapidly in recent years, boosted by its high exposure to the semiconductor industry where an exponential rise in global data volumes is driving demand for microchips.
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Things took a turn for the worse this month when Japan restricted exports of high-tech material to South Korea, a move that could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays.
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The Manufacturing, Investment, and Controls Review for Computer Hardware, Intellectual Property and Supply (Microchips) Act would establish a National Supply Chain Security Center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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While marathon training often involves fancy GPS watches, microchips in your shoe and other technology, all you need for your career are tools you already have — some Excel or Google Drive spreadsheets.
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ARM, which provides technology for the iPhone, is a major presence in mobile processing, with its processor and graphics technology used by Samsung, Huawei, and Apple in their in-house designed microchips.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. and European suppliers of microchips, sensors and circuitry to Apple Inc fell on Wednesday, after the company's much-awaited iPhone sales missed expectations in its second quarter.
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Apple revealed that its new iPhone 2199 will come with two back cameras, including an ultra wide-angle lens and the next generation of microchips, the A303, but few big apparent changes.
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Digital cameras brought about a revolution in photography, but until now, it was only a revolution of scale: Thanks to microchips, cameras got smaller and cheaper, and we began carrying them everywhere.
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Chinese officials in recent days have been defending the government's ambitious plan, known as Made in China 2025, to create globally competitive players in industries like advanced microchips, driverless cars and robotics.
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They also believe that we still don't understand whether consciousness is unique to our biological substrate, or if other substrates — like silicon or graphene microchips — are also capable of generating conscious experiences.
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Implanted under the skin (a simple procedure that any vet can perform), pet microchips include your name and other identifying information and, unlike collar tags, can't fall off or be easily removed.
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More recently, body-modification enthusiasts and technophiles have been installing microchips in their bodies that do everything from start a car to send a text message to make a payment in bitcoin.
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But there is no indication that Chinese companies have halted or reversed their plans to upgrade their capabilities, or that officials are any less interested in catching up in areas like microchips.
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On one hand, the standoff over the Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has exposed, to many in China, the degree to which the country still lags in core technologies such as microchips.
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In Wisconsin, a technology company called Three Square Market offered employees an opportunity to have microchips implanted under their skin in order, it said, to be able to use its services seamlessly.
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Then came a physics PhD at Oxford where Liu worked on X-ray lasers that could be used to decrease the complexity and cost of making microchips, cancer treatments and other applications.
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U.S. CONCERNS OVER DEALS WITH CHINA | China's push to make its own microchips, a move that could bolster its military capabilities and its homegrown technology industry, is attracting attention and suspicion in Washington,
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SuperMicro is trying to claw back its reputation after a widely disputed Bloomberg Businessweek article that said the California-based hardware company had allowed Chinese government microchips meant for spying onto their motherboards.
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Legislation for the deal, released on Tuesday, added a few wrinkles, including a rule that horses would be embedded with microchips, for easier tracking, and afforded at least five weeks' vacation a year.
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And it refrains from scapegoating technology: "Halt and Catch Fire" is clear that it is not microchips but human behaviour—our attitudes towards success, work or family—that alienates characters from one another.
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By replicating many of the functions of human organs in miniature, on microchips, scientists can, in theory, more accurately observe what happens to those organs when exposed to different drugs or environmental conditions.
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China is pushing its firms to develop 70% of the microchips used in China by 2025 and is investing $150 billion in the next decade to improve the design and manufacture of microprocessors.
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But since factories in China are the world's main assemblers of electronics, the country's drive for self-sufficiency in microchips could pose a threat to chip producers in the rest of the world.
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"You, as the manufacturer, have to find a way to boost sales," said Sam Chee Wah, general manager at Feinmetall Singapore, whose products are used for testing semiconductor wafers, a component in microchips.
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Trump administration officials on Monday placed eight Chinese companies and a number of police departments on a blacklist that forbids them to buy American-made technology like microchips, software and other vital components.
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Sporting "I Got Chipped" T-shirts, some 40 workers at Three Square Market, a firm that makes cafeteria kiosks aimed at replacing vending machines, got tiny rice-sized microchips embedded in their hands.
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Many of these driverless vehicles, experts say, will require immense computing power, including the latest microchips able to crunch reams of data in seconds to keep the cars safe, and on the road.
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It cornered the personal computer market over more than three decades, supplying hundreds of millions of desktop computers with much of their internal architecture, after dominating which microchips were used in the industry.
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ARM, the largest London-listed tech company by market value, is a major presence in mobile processing, with its processor and graphics technology used by Samsung, Huawei, and Apple in their in-house microchips.
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Back in April, first division club CA Tigre proposed surgically implanting microchips—or "passion tickets," as they called them—into fans' bodies to expedite their access to the stadium and curb violence during games.
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Japan earlier this month tightened curbs on exports of high-tech materials used in semiconductors and smartphone displays, threatening to disrupt the global supply of microchips used by the likes of Apple Inc APPL.
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ARM, the most valuable tech company listed in London, is a major presence in mobile processing, with its processor and graphics technology used by Samsung, Huawei and Apple in their in-house designed microchips.
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Beijing's plan to pump billions of dollars into areas like microchips and robotics to shed its dependence on foreign technology — known as "Made in China 202025" — has come under fire from the US government.
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Rather than the screens, sensors, microchips and Big Data typically employed by Smart City designers, Daan Roosegaarde works with a more fanciful tool kit: smog-eating machines, light-emitting plankton and solar-sensitive paint.
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What they're saying: China's stated objective is to dominate the primary industries of future wealth and the jobs that come with them, including artificial intelligence, robotics, self-driving and electric cars, and advanced microchips.
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Yet given the rapid acceptance of several of the products photographed here, it may not be long before many of us are, say, using the microchips in our hands to store credit card information.
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Celltrion is leading a pharmaceuticals drive by South Korean firms, which aim to adapt the manufacturing skills that made the country a force in microchips and smartphones to the complex world of biotech drugs.
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These investments are likely to give Samsung a useful profit base to build upon as the market for smartphones and all manner of connected devices continues to grow, fueling demand for microchips and modems.
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Behind her bright green eyes and soft, glowing skin—made from something called "frubber"—lies an armature of microchips, sensors, and other gadgetry that allow her to blink, smile, and pose for di Sturco's camera.
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Some of them sounded just like miracles from the Bible—with prosthetic legs controlled by thought and microchips connected to the visual cortex, scientists were learning to help the lame walk and the blind see.
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You've probably already heard of nanotechnology, the buzzword-y innovation that's brought you everything from super-fast microchips to stain-resistant pants, thanks to manufacturing processes that manipulate matter at the very smallest of scales.
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If hacked, microchips implanted inside the body could be read to reveal a person's location and length of time spent somewhere, as well as information about your health or any data stored on the chip.
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Investors shrugged off the government's proposed supplementary budget aimed in part at supporting exports, and worried after chipmaker Texas Instruments said it expects a slowdown in demand for microchips could last a few more quarters.
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Instead of silicon transistors on microchips, scientists must create their devices either out of lasers that trap individual atoms, superconducting material that conducts current without resistance that demonstrates manipulatable quantum properties, or other potential architectures.
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The move comes in the face of Tokyo's curbs on some exports of high-tech materials to South Korea that threaten to disrupt the global supply of microchips used by technology companies around the world.
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Celltrion Inc is leading a pharmaceuticals drive by South Korean firms, which aim to adapt the manufacturing skills that made the country a force in microchips and smartphones to the complex world of biotech drugs.
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Motivated kidnappers aren't even deterred by GPS tracking microchips implanted in a person's body; there was a case in Mexico in 2010 where kidnappers reportedly dug a microchip out of a man's arm with scissors.
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The entities are one of China's leading supercomputer makers, Sugon; three subsidiaries set up to design microchips, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology; and the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology.
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Under an ambitious plan unveiled two years ago called Made in China 2025, Beijing has designs to dominate cutting-edge technologies like advanced microchips, artificial intelligence and electric cars, among many others, in a decade.
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It has spent hugely to help fund efforts by private Chinese companies and state-run national champions to acquire foreign firms that make microchips, the brains of everything from supercomputers to smartphones to guided missiles.
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Three Square Market began developing the new chip around this time last year, which is about the time the company branched out from self-service kiosks into microchips, smart city and medical error mitigation technology.
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Some of Intel's data center customers, whose thousands of computers run cloud networks, are exploring using microchips from the market leader's rivals to build new infrastructure after the discovery of security flaws affecting most chips.
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France is to broaden the scope of legislation which can be used to veto foreign takeovers, extending it to the fields of artificial intelligence, microchips, space and data storage, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Friday.
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Such debates are, at root, about trust, a commodity that mattered less when China exported tennis shoes and televisions rather than microchips that can keep self-driving cars on the road and planes in the air.
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The report claims that spies were able to infiltrate some of the country's biggest tech companies by inserting microchips the size of "a grain of rice" into Chinese-manufactured servers, part of the tech giants' infrastructure.
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The operation is perhaps the most audacious example of hardware hacking by a nation state ever publicly reported, with a branch of China's armed forces reportedly forcing Chinese manufacturers to insert microchips into US-designed servers.
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Steve Cox, practice manager at the Castle Veterinary Group and the one who reunited Winston with his family, hopes the story inspires pet owners to make sure all of their animals have up-to-date microchips.
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Burned by the poor outcome of previous efforts to promote microchips, solar panels and LEDs, officials are funnelling a large chunk of their initial investment—around $30 billion—through a handful of state-backed investment funds.
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Consider the Chinese government's "Made in China 2025", a 2015 report laying out how Beijing intends in the next decade to create globally competitive firms in critical industries such as advanced microchips, driverless cars and robotics.
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And in 2007 Intel for the first time introduced non-Silicon materials into its microchip transistors, thus extending the duration of Moore's Law — the expectation that the power of microchips would double roughly every two years.
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Other have created less invasive diagnostic tests or even begun to rely on human-like organs in the lab that are lined onto microchips—methods that the FDA is reportedly using more often in its work.
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Trump seized on immigration as an emotional wedge to rally his base against "the other" and to blame "the other" for lost jobs, even though more jobs, particularly low-skilled jobs, are lost to microchips, not Mexicans.
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But some countries don't scan passport barcodes or microchips, and that's where even a low-cost phony passport can help a criminal gain entry, according to Brian Stack, vice president of engineering and darkweb surveillance at Experian.
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Shares in Versum, spun off from Air Products in 2016, fell 27 percent in 2018 as demand for microchips used in smartphones and other personal devices plateaued and a decade-long rally in U.S. stock markets wobbled.
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The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
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ARM, the most valuable tech company listed in London by market value, is a major presence in mobile processing, with its processor and graphics technology used by Samsung, Huawei and Apple in their in-house designed microchips.
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The White House is said to be preparing to open an investigation into China's trade practices as concerns intensify about the country's efforts to make itself a global leader in microchips, electric cars and other crucial technologies.
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Even in microchips, its strength, Intel was scrambling to catch up to its rival Nvidia, whose superfast processors were attracting automakers because of their ability to fuse images from the cameras and radar sensors to detect obstacles.
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The ability to continue selling to Huawei could offer a reprieve to American companies like Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom and Google, which sell Huawei microchips, software and other specialized parts that go into its smartphones and telecom equipment.
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Collectively dubbed "SweynTooth," the flaws exist not in BLE itself, but in the BLE software development kits that come with seven "system on a chip" products—microchips that integrate all of a computer's components in one place.
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Microchip pet doors: To ensure pesky intruders such as raccoons or mice stay outside, pet doors are now able to recognize animals' microchips or collar tags as a sort of key for entry to locked pet doors.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France is to broaden the scope of legislation which can be used to veto foreign takeovers, extending it to the fields of artificial intelligence, microchips, space and data storage, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Friday.
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When Danish biology students Frederik Christensen and Trine Olson tried implanting the asterias rubens (common starfish) with microchips, they found the creatures would simply draw them through their bodies internally before "spitting" them out from their arms. Outrageous.
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Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro each released a forceful denial that their systems were tampered with following the publication of a Bloomberg Businessweek report last week, which alleged that Chinese agents introduced microchips into servers manufactured in the country.
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In addition to faster, more efficient chips for laptops and smartphones, tiny but powerful processors could enable new types of technology, such as bendable computers and injectable microchips, or nano-machines that could target cancers in the body.
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There are obvious extremes, like the Wisconsin company implanting microchips in their employees, supposedly for sign-in purposes, or Amazon's automated tracking and firing systems, which can monitor and discipline employees without the intercession of a human being.
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The "ZTE incident" — its sudden crippling by U.S. sanctions — demonstrated that China's technology boom was built on access to American-made microchips, software and other tools, leading our columnist to ask if this could be China's Sputnik moment.
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Writing today in the journal Science Advances, researchers from Caltech and Stanford describe how they've equipped jellyfish with microchips and electrodes to turbocharge their swimming pace, from a leisurely 2 centimeters per second to a less leisurely 6.
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The temporary export license, however, does not cover major transactions between U.S. semiconductor manufacturers like Intel, Qualcomm and Micron that supply microchips to the Shenzhen-based company, which is one of the world's largest manufacturers of telecommunications equipment.
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Japan (CNN)Some people microchip their pets to ensure they're easily found when lost, but now a city in Japan wants to apply a similar approach to their elderly -- and they're turning to QR code stickers instead of microchips.
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Ending up with the way computers store memory today—on microchips made from special material called semiconductors—required advances in the sciences as well as in the processes that made silicon storage much cheaper than little rings of magnets.
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Donald Trump's tit-for-tat war with Beijing over everything from microchips to soy beans has seen European markets sink more than 5% so far in May, putting the STOXX on course for its first monthly fall this year.
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The redefinition sustains this exchange of goods and information into the future, and it will support the development of new technology that requires precise measurement, like building microchips for quantum computers or medicine that's tailored to an individual's genome.
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One of the other cool takeaways is the fact that the microchips have little pictograms of the chip orientations printed on them, and MindTribe also says there are diode marks if you look really closely at the circuit board.
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TOKYO, July 13 (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea traded further acrimony on Saturday, with Tokyo accusing Seoul of mischaracterising talks the day before that did not mend a dispute that could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays.
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The internet giant announced in March that it will invest an additional $261.9 billion in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group, adding to a run of recent investments in China including brick-and-mortar stores, microchips and logistics.
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The internet giant announced in March that it will invest an additional $29.73 billion in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group, adding to a run of recent investments in China including brick-and-mortar stores, microchips, and logistics.
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Two weeks ago, the Trump administration placed Huawei, the Chinese maker of telecommunications gear, on the entity list, which could deny it access to microchips, software and other American-provided technology it needs to make and sell its products.
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The Trump administration threatened ZTE's existence as a business last month, when the Commerce Department ordered a seven-year halt in American shipments of computer microchips and software that are at the heart of most of ZTE's telecommunications gear.
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Deal announced: July 2016Deal closed: September 2016Deal size: Around $31 billionJapan's SoftBank in 2016 bought British chip maker ARM – designer of microchips for a variety of smartphones including Apple's iPhone – in the biggest acquisition of a British technology company.
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Students wrote about orbital velocity and the French Revolution, the Röttgen Pietà, and "The Grapes of Wrath" — and connected these and other academic topics to Times reporting on everything from malls to microchips, Pinterest to protests in Hong Kong.
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People have been implanting microchips in pets as "tracking" devices for years, even though the chips don't actually track locations—they serve as virtual ID tags that confirm the identity of a lost pet if it's listed in a database.
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A robotic arm is used in the delicate task of fabricating nanometer-sized microchips, but the same machine would find it impossible to fish out a folded Gap T-shirt in a plastic bag from a bin of other products.
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It had previously warned that a slowdown in demand for microchips that started late last year may last a few more quarters, as China's economy slows and manufacturers face the fallout of an ongoing trade dispute with the United States.
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Even if you're not in that line of work, until they put microchips in our brains (which, admittedly, might not be so far off) writing emails will probably be the main way you connect with your bosses, colleagues, friends, and customers.
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A Bloomberg BusinessWeek report that Chinese equipment manufacturer Super Micro may have allowed microchips used for spying into U.S. data center equipment run by AWS, Apple and others is likely to stoke trade tensions between the two nations over alleged espionage.
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Among the honorees were The Lewis Bioprinting Team at Harvard University, which creates organ-specific human tissues on microchips, a technology currently being utilized to replace animals in drug safety testing, and Dr. Su-Hyon Lee of Biosolution Co. Ltd.
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While that lowers the possibility for error, it also imposes a massive computational burden on the controllers, so they're equipped with fast microchips that can evaluate tens of thousands of possible moves, choosing the best one in less than a second.
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This does not conflict with its denial of hardware attack; in fact, it bolsters it, because Apple cites the malware as the reason it dropped Supermicro as a vendor in its official statement — not the presence of malicious microchips in servers.
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Part of the heavy workload at Intel resulted from Moore's law — named after Mr. Moore, who postulated that microchips would double in power and halve in price every 20003 months, thus rendering older chips and the computers that used them obsolete.
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In the last decade, he has unveiled outfits that changed shape thanks to microchips and animatronics, gowns embedded with more than 15,000 LEDs to recreate a pixelated screen, and overcoats that dissolved into dresses when showered with water on a runway.
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Part of the heavy workload at Intel resulted from Moore's law — named after Mr. Moore, who postulated that microchips would double in power and halve in price every 22000 months, thus rendering older chips and the computers that used them obsolete.
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Japan's tighter export restrictions on three materials crucial for smartphone displays and microchips could hit tech giants, such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc, that supply chips to the likes of Apple Inc and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
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The Trump administration is preparing to limit Chinese investment in sensitive American technology, ranging from microchips to 5G wireless technology, as it tries to prevent China from gaining an edge in industries projected to power the global economy for decades.
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Yet in an interview with the Chinese state news media, Zhang Yunquan, a top government researcher and head of the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan, China, said that Sugon could use the work of the joint venture to make supercomputer microchips.
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In May, the Administration took its largest step yet against Huawei: the Commerce Department blacklisted it from buying American microchips and other technology—a blow to Huawei's ability to make the smartphones and networking equipment that it sells around the world.
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SEOUL, South Korea — This is a partial list of the businesses of Samsung, the South Korean business empire: smartphones, microchips, insurance, gas ovens, hospitals, dishwashers, cargo ships, stocks, microwave ovens, apartment buildings, vacuum cleaners, credit cards, pharmaceuticals, air-conditioners and bidets.
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This idea of recycling is paramount to von Trapp, who crafts her streamlined modern essentials, like stackable rings in mixed yellow, rose and white gold, exclusively from repurposed gold — found everywhere from pawn shops to the microchips of discarded cellphones.
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Last year the US Department of Commerce added Huawei to a list of companies considered a threat to US national security, meaning it would need permission to acquire technology developed in the US, including microchips and operating systems such as Android.
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Silicon Valley, for example, couldn't have happened without the US Department of Defense buying the microchips that Bay Area companies started to produce, or if Stanford University hadn't fostered entrepreneurs who then patented technologies and spun out their own companies.
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A growing trend in bodily implants is "turning the internet of things into the internet of us," says the founder of a Swedish company that specializes in injecting microchips about the size of a grain of rice under people's skin.
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Pichai has often talked about how the rise of what technologists call "ambient" computing — where sensors, cameras, and microchips turn everything into a computer powered by the cloud — will unleash the power of AI insights onto every real-world object around us.
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The audit of Super Micro hardware comes on the heels of a scandalous report that Chinese spies had allegedly installed secret microchips on motherboards that were used in servers operated by giant tech companies like Apple and government agencies like the CIA.
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Investors shrugged off the government's proposed supplementary budget aimed in part at supporting exports from the country and focused instead on a warning from chipmaker Texas Instruments, which said it expects a slowdown in demand for microchips to last a few more quarters.
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Infineon has agreed to buy Cypress Semiconductors in a deal that values the U.S. maker of microchips used in cars and electronic devices at 9 billion euros ($10.1 billion) including debt, sending shares in the German company lower on concerns over the cost.
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Wong also mentions overhearing Levandowski boasting about "microchips sales all over the world," and suggests that Levandowski may be involved in autonomous startups Argo AI and JingChi, although Wired reports it was unable to find any evidence linking Levandowski to either company.
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SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - A row between Japan and South Korea escalated on Saturday, with contested accounts of a frosty meeting the day before that had failed to make progress on a dispute that could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays.
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The company said in April that it planned to cut up to 12,000 jobs globally as it refocuses its business toward making microchips that power data centers and Internet-connected devices and away from the declining personal computer industry it helped found.
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Krzanich, who was forced out on Thursday after disclosure of a "consensual relationship with an Intel employee," spent the past six months dealing with the fallout from so-called speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel microchips, most commonly known as Meltdown and Spectre.
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The first person I approached—a tall nervous man in his 40s named Anthony—told me that if we tolerate microchips in our ID cards, in a few years Greeks will need chips implanted under their skin in order to get into supermarkets.
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Broadcom Inc, among the world's biggest chipmakers, weighed on the tech-heavy Nasdaq with a 2.6% fall, after it said in results late on Thursday that demand for microchips had bottomed out and that a recovery was not yet on the cards.
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If Mr. Trump made these moves, the Chinese state media said, China would be ready with reprisals: ending purchases of grains from the heartland, ordering passenger aircraft from Airbus instead of Boeing and clamping down on the sales of American microchips and phones.
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Since China currently produces a large chunk of the world's electronics (including technologies like sensors and microchips that are fundamental to the IoT), the country is well positioned to shape the backbone of connected homes, IoT-integrated infrastructure, and smart cities around the world.
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He said that while it was not clear what the United States government was worried about, research by LED companies into technology linking gallium nitride and silicon could have broader implications for creating advanced microchips that could be used in a wide array of electronics.
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The companies agreed to a partnership in November that allowed Intel to provide the specialized microchips to Mobileye's crash avoidance system; in January, they also announced they were working with BMW to roll out at least 40 autonomous vehicles by the second half of 2017.
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Apple has come out swinging at last week's Bloomberg spy chip report today with a new letter to some of the biggest tech watchdogs in Congress, flatly denying that any of the company's servers were compromised through the use of microchips implanted by Chinese spies.
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Amazon, Apple – Chinese equipment manufacturer Super Micro may have allowed microchips used for spying into data center equipment run in the U.S. by Amazon Web Services, Apple, and others, according to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report.
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SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea failed to mend a dispute that could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays after officials met in Tokyo on Friday for a more than five-hour briefing that drew media attention for its frosty start.
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But there is more work to be done before tunnelling transistors become viable, says Greg Yeric of ARM, a British designer of microchips: for now they do not yet switch on and off quickly enough to allow them to be used for fast chips.
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In the book—which is based on real-life technology, technical papers, and diplomatic meetings—national security and international relations expert Peter W Singer suggests that Chinese-made microchips embedded in our appliances, devices, satellites, fighter jets, war ships, and tanks could turn against us.
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Equipping pets with ID tags or microchips is one way to ensure your pets' safe return in case they get lost while on vacation or stray away from home, but you can take your dog's safety to another level — with wearable tech for pets.
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Equipping pets with ID tags or microchips is one way to ensure your pets' safe return in case they get lost while on holiday or stray away from home, but you can take your dog's safety to another level — with wearable tech for pets.
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That includes efforts to cure breast cancer and control the Zika virus, the development of "organs" on microchips that could speed drug development by eliminating trials on humans, and promising research into artificial kidneys inspired by, of all things, the filaments of cotton candy.
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With trade tensions growing between the two countries and threatening supply chains, Mr. Xi has spoken frequently about the need for China to develop its own microchips, software and other technologies, part of its strategy to become a leading superpower of the 21st century.
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Firms that specialize in microchips, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and other industries have grown increasingly alarmed by the administration's efforts to restrict the flow of technology to China, saying it could siphon expertise, research and revenue away from the United States, ultimately eroding America's advantage.
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The Amazon Web Services partnership will try to close the gap with league-level data from the NFL's Next Gen Stats, which capture location data, speed, and acceleration for every player on the field hundreds of times a minute through microchips in their pads.
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Among them are claims that "an army" of Haitian refugees escaping the devastating 2010 earthquake there sought to overthrow Brazil's government, that the official retirement age was being raised to 95 and that President Dilma Rousseff was overseeing a plan to insert microchips into Brazilian citizens.
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It is a remarkable turnabout for Japan, a country that controlled the majority of the market for many kinds of microchips a generation ago, and where companies have frequently banded together to rescue flailing domestic rivals rather than let them fold or be acquired by foreigners.
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A chip on one's shoulder As part of its efforts to curb counterfeiting, Salvatore Ferragamo has been slipping microchips into women's bags, shoes, luggage and small leather goods and men's shoes — to guarantee "product authenticity, as well as the possibility to track products" — Footwear News reported.
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The prototype would only consist of only two microchips, but if it works, it could be the basis of a large scale quantum computer consisting of millions of ions and occupying a space the size of a football field (not to mention costing upwards of $120 million).
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First, China under Xi announced a "Made in China 2025" modernization plan, promising subsidies to make China's private and state-owned companies the world leaders in supercomputing, A.I., new materials, 3-D printing, facial-recognition software, robotics, electric cars, autonomous vehicles, 5G wireless and advanced microchips.
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The United States is also trying to limit China's access to American technology more broadly and is considering restricting sales of microchips, artificial intelligence, robotics and some types of advanced software, along with preventing tech companies from teaming up — or even sharing research — with Chinese firms.
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On Thursday, Paul Mozur and Jane Perlez reported that American officials had blocked a proposed purchase of a controlling stake in a unit of the Dutch electronics company Philips by Chinese investors because the United States was fearful the deal would be used to further China's push into microchips.
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And billionaires like him keep businesses that sell James Bond-level of security features (valuable art pieces can now be fitted with microchips that can lock down the home and notify police, which you would think would lessen the value of the piece, but whatever) alive and well.
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Airbus has also created a new generation of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) microchips that were originally developed for the wings of its test aircraft and then adapted on board the Oracle boat to measure the wind speed and direction at all points on its almost 25-metre-high wing sail.
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The Trump administration is preparing a broad move against China over trade, according to people with knowledge of its plans, amid growing worries in the United States over a Chinese government-led effort to make the country a global leader in microchips, electric cars and other crucial technologies of the future.
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Trouble for China tech: Shares in Chinese tech hardware makers took a hit after Bloomberg News reported that the Chinese military hid tiny microchips in computer motherboards that were sold to major US companies including Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL), allowing hackers to access any network that included the affected equipment.
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In the United States, however, Intel Corp said late on Tuesday it would cut up to 2177.6,22014 jobs globally, or 215 percent of its workforce, as it refocuses its business towards making microchips that power data centers and Internet connected devices and away from the declining personal computer industry it helped found.
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"If you ever try to do something in a science lab that's not science, people look at you in a really funny way," said Mr. Coelho, who initially had to schmooze the gatekeeper to the multimillion-dollar microscope, which was designed to repair microchips (the pair settled for access in the wee hours).
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The exact types of projects that would be subject to restrictions are unclear, but the measures could clamp down on collaboration in advanced materials, software and other technologies at the heart of Beijing's plan to dominate cutting-edge technologies like advanced microchips, artificial intelligence and electric cars, known as Made in China 2025.
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And then there are microchips: A study published in The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association of more than 7,700 stray animals at shelters found dogs without them were returned to their owners 21.9 percent of the time, while microchipped dogs were returned to their owners 52.2 percent of the time.
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If we were to allow China to use those same abusive practices it employed to dominate the manufacturing and assembly of low-margin, high-volume goods to now compete directly with us for the high-value-added, high-margin technologies of the 21st century — like 5G telecom, new materials, AI, aerospace, microchips — we'd be crazy.
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In addition to the tariff dispute, Chinese officials have expressed deep concern about ZTE, a 70,000-employee telecommunications company that has largely shut down operations in the past month after an obscure American government agency, the Bureau of Industry and Security, ordered United States companies to stop selling crucial microchips and software to ZTE for seven years.
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WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing to open a broad investigation into China's trade practices, according to people with knowledge of the Trump administration's plans, amid growing worries in the United States over a Chinese government-led effort to make the country a global leader in microchips, electric cars and other crucial technologies of the future.
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Capitalism in the codeThese streams of AI history—corporate decision-making, state power and the application of statistics to war—have not survived in the public understanding of AI. Instead, news of technical breakthroughs or pundits voicing fears are accompanied with imagery, if not of a heavily-armed Terminator, then of the brain, a robot, neon-colored microchips or absurd mathematical equations.
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In the past 24 hours, we've seen a Bloomberg report that Amazon and Apple network servers may have been compromised by Chinese spy microchips, a Reuters report warning of attacks by a Beijing-linked hacking group, a CNN story about the U.S. Navy proposing a show of force in the Pacific, and a speech by Mike Pence accusing China of trying to undermine President Trump.
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Apple, whose stock has increased nearly 40% since late April, also fell 4.6% on concerns about trade tensions between China and the US. Last week Vice President Mike Pence gave a scathing speech warning that the US "will not stand down" to suspected interference in American politics, while Bloomberg Businessweek published a widely debated story about Chinese state actors embedding technology on microchips to extract trade secrets from American companies, including Apple and Amazon.
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From the foods we eat, like blueberries, cranberries, and Roma tomatoes, to the medical miracles that sustain us, like MRIs, heart monitors, and vaccines; from solar panels, microchips, and advanced batteries that power our lives, to cordless innovations without which we couldn't imagine our lives today; from GPS technology that helps us find our way in the physical world, to Google that helps us navigate the virtual one, federally funded R&D was there first.
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PERRY: Well, yes, that&aposs a good point that it serves not only as our international exchange of goods and services and financial assets, but there is also an international exchange of knowledge in technology and innovation, and so that accumulates over time in ways that Thomas Solo said we have all of these natural resources, but we don&apost get the instruction booklets from Mother Nature on how to produce microchips from sand or something.
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Hashtag campaigns for "Huawei Doesn't Need to Rely on America for its Microchips" (#华为芯片可以不依赖美国供应链#) and "Huawei's Self-Developed Operating System Hong Meng" (#华为自研操作系统鸿蒙#) were also trending on Weibo, highlighting that Huawei already develops many of its own components for its phones, as well as the in-house operating system that Huawei has been developing for just this sort of circumstance.
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President Trump has repeatedly asserted that his trade spat is intended to stop China from becoming a powerful technological powerhouse that would rival the U.S. But Li Yuan of the NYT points out that a Chinese vision of tech dominance is likely to happen because it is being embraced throughout the nation: Beijing's vision of Made in China 2025 — the ambitious state-driven plan to retool China's industries to compete in areas like automation, microchips and self-driving cars — is not being pushed just by the Communist Party's top leaders.
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For instance, on technology he argues convincingly that 2007, which saw the arrival of the iPhone, Android and Kindle, was the year when software began, in the words of Netscape's founder, "eating the world"; he introduces us to vital obscure bits, like GitHub and Hadoop; he points out that if Moore's law (that the power of microchips would double about every two years) had applied to the capabilities of cars, not computer chips, then the modern descendant of the 1971 Volkswagen Beetle would travel at 19783,000 miles per hour, cost 4 cents and use one tank of gasoline in a lifetime.
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