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What are microchips?

Microchips are tiny electronic brains that power everything from your phone to supercomputers. In this story, Arm Holdings designs these crucial components, which are essential for building the data centres needed to develop advanced AI. A global shortage of these chips is slowing down progress in areas like AI cancer research.

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