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Copper-based chips

Copper-based chips are semiconductor chips, such as microprocessors, which use copper for interconnections. Since copper is a better conductor than aluminium, this allows the chips to be smaller, and to use less energy, and may hence run faster.

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Copper Microprocessors (http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,43506,00)

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