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RSS microchipOrchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting Case Study: Elevator Controller
White Paper Drawing on Technology from AMD and Microchip Technology, Orchid fashioned an AMD AM80188ER primary control board, and a Microchip PIC16C923 based slave processor. The design of Elevator Control Systems... [01 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo ID cards will be able to be used to verify a person's identity via the cards' embedded microchip, which will store the cardholder's biographic information, their photograph and a scan of two of their fingerprints. [30 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment Despite a recent spate of criticisms, from Tories pledging to cancel the scheme if they win the next election to concern over the failure to provide readers for the microchip on ID cards issued to foreign nationals,... [10 Jul 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News The ID cards will electronically store two fingerprints and a photograph on a built-in microchip, while the National Identity Register (NIR) will store all 10 fingerprints and a facial scan. The National Identity... [15 Apr 2009]
Intel: PC market won't suffer credit crunch blows
News Intel, the world's biggest microchip producer, expects no slowdown in global demand for personal computers despite economic problems in the United States and in other countries, Intel chairman Craig Barrett said on... [31 Jul 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News A spokeswoman for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said that it was South Norfolk's decision to adopt the microchip approach and that no decision would be made nationally on the effectiveness of... [17 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself, IBM announced yesterday. The chip's components are built in a 3D... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo MD of Rackspace Doug Loewe (pictured) shows off the contrast between the cutting-edge microchip technology and the bits of wood powering them. Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it is something of a novel... [20 May 2008]
An Application Framework for Efficient, Reliable and Secure Access to Memory Spot
White Paper Memory Spot is a microchip developed by HP Labs at Bristol. Compared to Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) devices, Smart Cards and other Near-Field Communication (NFC) devices, this chip provides much larger storage... [05 Jul 2007]
Oyster and Octopus - a tale of two cities' contactless cards
Comment Each card, made by Sony, has a built-in microchip that can act as a digital purse, ticket and key - transmitting signals by radio frequency. In his travels for silicon.com's latest special report, about business and... [28 Jun 2006]
Planning begins for chipped driving licences
News But EC proposals for a third directive on driving licences, currently under negotiation, include the option for member states to include a microchip. The DVLA told silicon.com in a statement: "A decision on whether the... [13 Mar 2006]
Creator of the integrated circuit dies
News The microchip was later demonstrated on 12 September, 1958. Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died on Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 81. [22 Jun 2005]
E-passports emerge on US horizon
News E-passports incorporate a special microchip that stores basic data, including the passport holder's name, date of birth and place of birth. The German microchip company is one of the four competitors for... [26 Oct 2004]
RFID gets skin-deep alternative
News Like RFID, Skinplex works by reading a unique identifier remotely using an electromagnetic signal, normally between a microchip and a reader. One German start-up has created an alternative to RFID that is likely to get... [04 Aug 2004]
Microsoft goes big on RFID for small business
News The way it works is that RFID tags, which contain a special radio frequency-emitting microchip, are attached to each carton or box of goods. The microchip wirelessly broadcasts information about itself,... [27 Jan 2004]
