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Apple will reportedly replace Intel processors with its own microchips

by Jon Gordon , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Apr 6, 2018
That would help its devices work more seamlessly together.
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Why Broadcom buying Qualcomm is making people nervous

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Mar 5, 2018
The potential merger would be the biggest the tech industry has seen.
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Would you let your boss microchip you?

by Ben Johnson and Olga Oksman
Jul 26, 2017
The vending machine firm sees radio-frequency identification chips inserted directly into the hands of their employees as the future.
A microchip implant like the kind Three Square Market uses, inserted under the skin.
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Are chip implants the payment method of the future?

by Kai Ryssdal
May 24, 2016
BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel had an RFID chip implanted in his hand and lived to talk about it.
An employee of internet security company Kaspersky Lab has a microchip implanted in the area between his thumb and the index finger during a Kaspersky Lab press conference on biological, psychological and technological implications of microchip implants ahead of the opening of the 55th IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) electronics trade fair in Berlin on September 3, 2015. 
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IBM will no longer make its own chips

by David Weinberg
Oct 20, 2014
IBM is paying $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries Inc. to take over its the division.
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Those little Intel microchips were famous, somehow

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 5, 2014
An interview with Michael Malone, author of "The Intel Trinity".
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The first microchip goes on auction, no one buys it

by David Gura
Jun 20, 2014
The first integrated circuit was estimated to sell for $1 million.
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Google may be after Intel's turf

by Molly Wood
Dec 13, 2013
Google might be getting into the game of making chips.
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Graphene: OMG! The magic material that an elephant standing on a pencil couldn't break

by Ben Johnson and Sabri Ben-Achour
Nov 21, 2013
Graphene is a material that could revolutionize microprocessing
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Chips find their way from inside computers to inside your body

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Aug 7, 2013
Does having a computer chip embedded in your brain sound like science fiction? Turns out, it's happening now and companies are figuring out how to cash in.
The implant in Lee's ear.
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