Photos: Intel's Silverthorne, Tukwila 
Published: 05 Feb 2008 16:28 GMT
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Wireless power amplifier
Ordinary amplifiers for non-digital signals need lots of analogue components, get hot and aren't very efficient. Switching amplifiers are simpler and more effective, but this is the first time that one has been created that produces nearly a watt of power at the ultra-high frequencies needed for wireless networking and mobile phones, and that can easily be integrated with other digital logic on a single chip.
Photo credit: Intel
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