The Chip is a sophisticated, high density data storage device. The only locations on Earth that have the computer hardware necessary to read the chip are inside the Lucky 38 Casino and a weather monitoring station on Fortification Hill. House's protégé intended to use it to gain control of the New Vegas Strip and make it an independent power in the wasteland, free of his employer's machinations. Once it was located, he had it sent to New Vegas via the Mojave Express.Ĭarried by the Courier from southern NCR, through the Hub, to New Vegas, the chip was intercepted by Benny in Goodsprings. House spent millions of caps (812,545 in 2280 alone) to find it.
After regaining consciousness from his coma after saving Las Vegas from full nuclear destruction, Mr. The Platinum Chip was designed by Robert House and was printed at great expense in Sunnyvale on October 22, 2077, a day before the Great War, but it became lost in the following nuclear holocaust.
