ES2's method often enables it to deliver prototype chips in less than half the time and at less than half the price of its competitors.

Mr. Darrow said that the prototype chip offered a higher contrast ratio, higher resolution and the same number of colors as a film print.

The problem had been almost random in how it affected the prototype chips, making it quite difficult to finally identify.

Similar systems are widely used throughout the semiconductor industry today to accelerate the time it takes to go from prototype chips to manufacturing.

For $6000 you can get the software and fab time (15 prototype chips in 12 weeks).

Bell Labs has made prototype chips that would allow Blast to operate at speeds of 19.2 megabits per second over a 3G wireless network.

Intel has shown 128-megabit prototype chips and said it planned to introduce products in 2007.

The design effort started in earnest in mid-1991 and the first prototype chips were available in October 1992.

In 2003, the TRIPS team started implementing a prototype chip.

"Admiral Nakamura had plans to insert a prototype chip in the socket dedicated to my emotion chip."