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Article: Norwood, Mass.-Based Analog Devices Steers Gyroscope Chip toward Auto Market.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- September 26, 2002
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 26--Gyroscopes aren't just for navigating airplanes anymore. A new kind of gyroscope from Norwood-based Analog Devices Inc. is helping tour buses find their way through the streets of New York and may someday be standard equipment on millions of cars.
That's because Analog Devices has developed what they say is the first gyroscope-on-a-chip. Produced in bulk, they'll sell for $20 or less. And they'll allow engineers to design cars that steer more accurately and vehicle direction systems that don't get lost even when they're out of range of Global Positioning System (GPS) ...