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Moore's law
Moore's law the observation made by Gordon Moore, co-founder of the Intel Corp., in a 1965 magazine article that the number of transistors per square inch on a microprocessor chip had doubled each year since the integrated circuit had been invented. This led Moore to predict that the number... Read more |
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Robert Norton Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce , 1927-90, American engineer, inventor, and entrepeneur, b. Burlington, Iowa.; grad. Grinnell College (B.A., 1949), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1953). Early in his career he worked with William Shockley on specialized versions of the transistor . In 1957... Read more |
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Mitel Corp
Mitel Corporation 350 Legget DriveKanata, Ontario K2K 1Y6Canada(613) 592-2122Fax: (613) 592-4170Web site: http://www.mitel.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1971Employees: 3,867Sales: C$576 million (fiscal year ending March 1996)Stock Exchanges: New York TorontoSICs: 3661 Phone/Telephone... Read more |
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Microchip
Microchip Although semiconductorsand microchips are essential components of modern computers, many people do not realize that computing machinery does not really need to be constructed with components that are normally associated with electronic equipment. In fact,... Read more |
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Intel Corp
Intel Corporation 2200 Mission College BoulevardSanta Clara, California 95052-8119U.S.A.Telephone: (408) 765-8080Toll Free: (800) 628-8686Fax: (408) 765-9904Web site: http://www.intel.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1968 as N M ElectronicsEmployees: 70,200Sales: $34.21 billion (2004)Stock... Read more |
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Eugene
Eugene city (1990 pop. 112,669), seat of Lane co., W Oregon, on the Willamette River; inc. 1862. A processing and shipping center in a farming area, the "Emerald City" has lumbering, food-processing, and microchip and other electronics industries. Its booming tourist industry is based on its... Read more |
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Andrew S. Grove
Andy Grove 1936– Chairman, Intel Corporation Nationality: American. Born: September 2, 1936, in Budapest, Hungary. Education: City College of New York, BS, 1960; University of California, Berkeley, PhD, 1963. Family: Son of George (dairyman) and Maria (bookkeeper); married... Read more |
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atomic force microscope
atomic force microscope (AFM), device that uses a spring-mounted probe to image individual atoms on the surface of a material. Unlike the scanning tunneling microscope , which is also a scanning probe microscope, the AFM can be used on materials that do not conduct electricity. In the original... Read more |
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Intellectuals
IntellectualsThe intellectual stratumThe institutions of intellectual lifeIntellectual traditions and social authorityThe functions of intellectualsBIBLIOGRAPHYIntellectuals are the aggregate of persons in any society who employ in their communication and expression, with relatively higher frequency... Read more |
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Potlatch Corp
Potlatch Corporation EARLY HISTORY GREAT DEPRESSION: CRISIS AND MERGER POSTWAR ERA: NEW PRODUCTS AND GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION THE MADDEN ERA, 1971– Read more |
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Intel urges tax credit extension Threatens to reconsider investing in Hudson...
...investing . . . in new technologies...competitive with Intel's other" sites. Intel has plants...California, New Mexico and Oregon...the state's new budget...difficult to win approval to...credit's biggest beneficiaries...impact on expansion ... |
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DEMAND FOR CHIPS FORCES INTEL TO BRING OLD FACTORY OUT OF RETIREMENT
...create many new jobs, said Intel spokesman...It's substantially...Arizona, Intel recently...with no firm expansion plan at hand...consistent with a big demand boom...Arizona and New Mexico. A portion of Intel's retrofit...in a Suns win over ... |
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Intel May Reconsider Retooling Its Hudson, Mass., Manufacturing Plant.
...investing ... in new technologies...competitive with Intel's other" sites. Intel has plants...California, New Mexico and Oregon...the state's new budget...difficult to win approval to...credit's biggest beneficiaries...impact on expansion ... |
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Bill Designs Plan to Attract High-Tech Industry to Texas.(Knight...
...help to the biggest of the big." After examining...Sadler's support is...Brimer hopes to win House approval...be first in new manufacturing...of Brimer's bill and has...measure. When Intel shut down construction...project in New Mexico. Then Intel...Ariz. ... |
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Sun shines on West Lothian workforce; Computing giant ready to add to number...
...pounds) 36m expansion that will almost...the plant's production...number of Sun's high-end...whether it can win one of the industry's fiercest...industry's two big players: Microsoft...market, and Intel, which makes...well as adding new ones. This...in Brazil, ... |
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COLORADO SPRINGS' TOP 25 PRIVATE EMPLOYERS Tech companies struggle to gain...
...s not a big surprise that...estimates. It's also uncertain...Paso County's job growth...said. Major expansions or relocations...list has one new face this...reported the biggest employment...Springs if it wins an Air Force...this year's list have...complete. ... |
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Crude oil prices hit another record
...records in New York and London...the Gulf of Mexico may soon be...rate fallsU.S. retail sales...the economic expansion regained momentum...the world's largest retailer...the world's largest computer...include an Intel Corp. Celeron...Callaway wins golf ball suit...the ... |