Chip developed by Brazil researchers will be linchpin of LHC upgrade
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

A Brazilian chip will be used to upgrade the detection system used in A Large Ion Collider Experiment ( ALICE), one of the four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world`s most powerful particle accelerator, located on the Franco-Swiss border. The chip is called SAMPA and was designed at the University of São Paulo`s Engineering School (Poli-USP) in Brazil.