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FAME FOUNDRY

It's funny, silicon chips are just like people, it seems. Millions quietly get on with their jobs all over the world, day in day out, and never become famous. But the odd few, often with no discernible talent, somehow manage to get their pictures in the papers with surprising regularity. Like one particular, old-fashioned-looking 22-pin component that has somehow got itself high profile spots in both a major section of business daily the Financial Times and in the pages of earnest science journal Nature. What's this chip's secret, Sneak demands to know.

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