Silicon chips bytes obesity

From the 6 Nov. 2006 Businessweek article on Texas Instruments, "To See Where Tech Is Headed, Watch TI:"

Some TI chips are finding unusual uses. One low-power processor originally designed to read meters electronically for a German utility found a home at biotech company IntraPace Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif. IntraPace decided to use the TI chip in a pill to treat chronic obesity. Once patients swallow the pill, which is set for clinical trials next year, the chip sends out electrical impulses that make them feel satiated. "TI has such a breadth of technologies that for a medical-device guy like me, it's like being a kid in a candy store," says IntraPace Chairman Mir A. Imran.