Technology Focus: Don’t Forget The Chips
Amid the hoopla surrounding new product introductions by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the initial public offering of Facebook (NYSE: FB) and what's new with Angry Birds, people forget to acknowledge the true brains of the whole business: the chip. Consumers take for granted the applications on their desktop PCs with Internet access, audio and video, access to printers and the telecom network. Young people have no idea what life was before 1985, when the first U.S. mobile phone service began.
