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Intel to manufacture communications chips

SEMICONDUCTORS The California-based firm has decided to put the techniques behind making its best-selling computer processors into communications products

BLOOMBERG , SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA

Taiwan Semiconductor Manu-facturing Co (台灣積體電路公司), the world's biggest chip foundry, builds transistors that measure 100 nanometers, according to estimates from Insight 64. While that's more than 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, Intel transistors are just 70 nanometers, the researcher says.

"Not all transistors are created equal," said Insight 64 analyst Nathan Brookwood.

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