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Tech Life

What's the deal with chips?

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tech Life explores the chips found in everyday tech, and why governments are competing to make them. We hear how scientists in New Zealand are turning underground broadband cables into a source of earthquake detection. Also in this programme how simulation tech is helping a South African HIV organisation reach more people and how AI could transform your next work out.

(Photo: Jim Wilson/Getty An employee holds a silicon wafer with chips etched into it)

Transcript

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.6

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.3

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.8

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.8

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:15.9

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.8

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.1

Science with funny bits.

0:21.9

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.1

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:28.6

An original audio drama series from the BBC World Service,

0:33.1

Fukushima tells the story of the 2011 disaster

0:36.6

at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

0:40.7

We lose the Daichi plant. Then we lose Japan as we know it.

0:45.2

Listen to the series now by searching for Fukushima, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:54.1

Hello, I'm Zoe Kleinman. And wherever you are in the world, welcome to tech life, where we're looking into the ways technology is changing our lives.

1:02.2

This week, we're talking about chips. They may be tiny, but without them, none of the gadgets we use every day would work.

1:08.9

They look like little, small, a centimetre by a centimetre, tiny little silicon wafers.

1:16.3

We'll reveal more.

1:18.0

Also coming up, how scientists in New Zealand are looking to turn fibre broadband cables

1:23.1

into earthquake detectors.

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