The most advanced commercial chips now available can store one million bits of information, or about 62 typed pages.

He said developing an advanced chip like the one envisioned would cost billions of dollars over the next decade.

Currently, Intel's most advanced chip, the 80486, has 1.2 million transistors.

Currently, the most advanced chips have circuits a little less than one micron wide.

He goes on to say that the A4 is, "our most advanced chip we've ever done."

The most advanced chips made today have circuit lines of just under a micron.

For some of the most advanced chips, he added, "we're running at close to 100 percent."

The advanced high-capacity chips can store about four million binary units of information.

In addition, industry officials said, the cost of developing advanced chips is becoming too high for a single company to bear.

The company has invested billions of dollars since the mid-1980's to develop advanced chips.