Tiny New Chips Win ChipCenter Award

phi1o writes "Ever wonder why a burrito-sized pentium is also called a "micro" chip? Me too... This page @ ChipCenter shows a new line of chips from National Semiconducter that are *really* small. They're all analog and of course nowhere near as complex as a P3, but you gotta wonder if processors are headed down this road in the future, to where they are mostly silicon rather than ceramic and plastic. On the one hand, this will make for smaller devices. On the other, it's gonna make building anything without a giant factory (ie in your bedroom.... hardware geeks with me?) much more difficult. I don't know what to think. "