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Rockchip IC Design House

Started in 2001, Rockchip is a Chinese integrated circuit design company with 700 staff and three R&D centers in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. Daniel finds out more from Henry Chan, Director, and Yanyan Hsing, Brand Manager. Although Rockchip probably isn't a familiar name to most GNC readers, its chip designs are used in many products including Chromebooks and tablets, and

555 Timer IC Footstool

Looking for a cool and geeky DIY project? Then this 555 Timer IC footstool might be just the thing for you. Imagine a small little chip scaled up thousands of times and you've got a something that would make a perfect footstool. Here it is and that's the actual chip in the foreground. Put together by the guys'n'gals over at

AMD and IBM Create Innovative High-Speed Computer Chip

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and International Business Machines (IBM) announced, today, their joint development of an innovative high-speed computer chip that will boost transistor speed by 24 percent, improving the performance and reducing the power consumption of chips used in many products. Using a new process called dual stress liner (DSL) the team improved the performance of both types of