Startup Seeks to Rev Market for Lower-Power Computing Chips

There’s a new player in the lucrative market of semiconductors that power everything from cars and game consoles to medical equipment and supercomputers.

..At the Fall Processor Forum here this week, P.A. Semi will announce how it has designed a high-performance chip it claims will consume as much as 10 times less power than today’s comparable products. But because it takes an average of four years to design and produce a new chip, P.A. Semi said its processors won’t hit the market until 2007.

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