What are the most important technologies in the portfolio? How are they integral to the products that major electronics firms are manufacturing?

The 20 000-foot view is that these technologies produce higher performance, lower cost, and lower power consumption microprocessors, so they solve problems that everyone wants to solve. The U.S. 5809336 patent, for instance, is an on-chip CPU clock and an independent input/output clock, which allows the CPU to be as great as it can be without being shackled by low input/output speed limits. The U.S. 5784584 patent allows chips to fetch multiple instructions in a single clock cycle, which reduces power consumption and processing time. Technologies like these have become the basis of the way microprocessors are designed today. Virtually every device that contains a microprocessor uses these technologies—from the mouse that is sitting a foot away from you, to the computer that’s telling me I have e-mail, to the ventilation system that’s pushing in the air I breathe.

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