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IBM in system-on-a-chip technology advance LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM) of the United States announced on Monday an advance in semiconductor technology that would allow entire electronic systems to be built on to a single semiconductor chip. The so-called system-on-a-chip technology will enhance the performance of many electronic products -- including personal computers and mobile phones -- while also making the products both smaller and less expensive. IBM, the world's biggest computer maker, said in a statement that it had found a way to put both logic and memory circuits on a single piece of silicon. Logic circuits process information and memory circuits store information, and both are used together to add "intelligence" to electronic products. "Until now, having processing power and data on separate chips was like having the materials you need to do the job in another office," Bijan Davari, vice president of development for the IBM Microelectronics Division, said in the statement. IBM aims to start designing chips with this system-on-a-chip capability in April. The New York Times newspaper earlier quoted IBM executives as saying that while not the first to create such systems its technology would work faster than current system-on-a-chip products.