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HP Exposes A Miniature Wireless Chip

HP, a leading computers company, has developed a new miniature wireless chip, which is, according to HP`s claim, the smallest wireless data chip in the world. Some of HP?s leading specialists have worked long hours to make this wonder-chip a reality.

The chip`s size is only between 2mm and 4mm square, which is, as HP phrases it for those of us only able to think of things in terms of food, about the size of a grain of rice. This tiny device can contain 256Kb to 4Mb of memory and also an antenna. In the nearest future it will be able to contain much more information.

The data can be transferred at 10Mbps to readers inserted in digital devices, such as a cell phone (about the size of a hotdog), PDA (about the size of a small steak), or a PC (about the size of two party buckets or four pizzas). According to HP the chip could be ?stuck on or embedded in almost any object?, a fact that opens up a lot of very helpful types of usage for the device in the future.