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To: Ignite44 who wrote (546)	8/18/1996 8:40:00 PM
From: Tech Bull	of 132070

Allow me to respond to your quest. (although unwarranted) Rest assured the power supplies can never be integrated into chips. Basically for storing energy you need a volume/space and also capability of power dissipation. When you talk about integrated power supplies you are talking about cases where no energy is feed into the system from outside. If this were so easy then companies would have already started doing R&D for their application in laptop computers. The fact that there is lot of research being done in developing battery (which can store the greatest amount of charge/unit weight) speaks volumes about how difficult this problem really is. And mere thermodynamic considerations make it impossible to have power stored on chip . More likely scenario could be integrating solar chips with existing ICs to GENERATE insitu power. But storing is out of question. TB

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