One reason is that packing circuits ever closer together, which increases the speed of digital chips, only causes noise and heat problems for analog ones.

It also included a new 2-channels digital sound chip that could play 8-bit stereo samples in hardware at up to 50 kHz.

These tiny digital chips represented money controlled by a corporation in Costa Rica.

This is because packing circuits closer together, which digital chips do to increase speed, only causes noise and heat problems for analog.

One of the first digital chips was created by Daniel Graupe.

Another was a digital chip holding train sounds recorded in 32-track fidelity.

One example was a plan to attach a device with a digital audio chip and a speaker to the cold-drink case in a convenience store.

In contrast, digital chips only use and create voltages or currents at discrete levels, with no intermediate values.

Now, for those who are most alienated from nature, digital chips offer up ocean waves or the rain forest.

And unlike common bar codes, the digital chips can carry more information about a product, like when and where that specific item was made.