Let us define micro machine as a small machine built using integrated circuit technology.
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"We want to revolutionize biology in the same way that the integrated circuit revolutionized information science, " Quake says.
Henderson also says he worked with inventor Jack Kilby, who won the Nobel Prize for developing the integrated circuit.
Back in the 1980s many tried to rescue lots of struggling companies, integrated circuit and biotech outfits among them.
"The trend in wafer fabrication is outsourcing integrated circuit or IC packaging and Hana will benefit from that, " Potter says.
With the arrival of the integrated circuit and the computer, those financial transactions could occur not only globally, but almost instantaneously.
And if it can be built small, using an integrated circuit process, it can be made cheaply and scaled to quantities of millions.
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The display, touch-screen module, as well as the applications processor and power management integrated circuit are all thought to be made by Samsung.
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Watson and Francis Crick's description of DNA's double-helix structure, and in computing, with Jack Kilby's and Bob Noyce's independent inventions of the integrated circuit.
Japanese companies have a similar grip on, for example, bonding material for integrated circuit packages and the lithography machines (called steppers) to make LCD panels.
The integrated circuit was invented to make smaller radios, the microprocessor to make smaller calculators, the Internet to speed communications between government agencies and universities.
Its the difference between soldering transistor after transistor into a tangle of wires and printing the whole design, in hundreds of copies at a time, on integrated circuit chips.
The quantum integrated circuit includes two quantum bits (qubits), a quantum communication bus, two bits of quantum memory, and a resetting register comprising a simple quantum computer.
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In 1959 Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments each invented the integrated circuit, etching a transistor onto a two- dimensional chip of silicon.
Glasslike silicon dioxide has been the insulator of choice in electronic chips since 1959, when Bob Noyce cobbled together the first silicon integrated circuit--wires and switches etched into silicon insulation.
Gurus focused most of their selling fury on technology stocks, starting off in the chip sector by cashing out of semiconductor equipment company Applied Materials and integrated circuit maker Linear Technology.
The new switch, dubbed EX9200, is based on a programmable Juniper ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) which provides compatibility with not only existing SDN protocols but also new ones as they develop over the next decade.
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If you wanted to do only one task and do it the same way every time, you would do better with a custom chip design -- what the engineers call an application specific integrated circuit.
Fairchild's 1959 integrated circuit contained one transistor.
What he did not foresee was the development of the transistor and later the integrated circuit, which mean satellites are far smaller than the objects he sketched out, which would have used valve technology and needed regular maintenance.
At the same time that Dr Kilby was demonstrating the first integrated circuit to his colleagues at Texas Instruments, Arvid Carlsson, a Swede, was carrying out the experiments that have won him a share in this year's medicine prize.
Infinera's optical routing gear is built around an all-in-one optical networking chip--which it calls a Photonic Integrated Circuit--that shrinks down the work done by a hodgepodge of parts in boxes from other vendors onto a pair of chips smaller than a fingernail.
The standard's global deployment is pervasive, and the span of stakeholders in its ongoing development is sweeping, including network component and system manufacturers (optical transceivers, cabling, integrated circuit, powering devices, switches and network interface cards, for example) and network, software and bandwidth providers, as well as LAN and Internet users worldwide.
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Gurus focused most of their selling fury on technology stocks, starting off in the chip sector by cashing out of semiconductor equipment company Applied Materials (nasdaq: AMAT - news - people ) and integrated circuit maker Linear Technology (nasdaq: LLTC - news - people ).
Besides being bullish on tech bellwethers like Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), Gurian also says to buy integrated circuit maker Linear Technology (nasdaq: LLTC - news - people ) and publishing software company Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ).
Because integrated-circuit packages are of strategic importance.
For the first quarter-century of the microprocessor's life, most integrated-circuit packages were fairly predictable hunks of ceramics, bought largely from one of four Japanese firms: Kyocera (its name is a combination of the words Kyoto and ceramics), NGK Spark Plug, Shinko Electronic Industries and Sumitomo Metal Electronics Devices.
For the first quarter-century of the microprocessor's life, most integrated-circuit packages were fairly predictable hunks of ceramics, largely bought from one of four Japanese firms: Kyocera (its name is a combination of the words Kyoto and ceramics), NGK Spark Plug, Shinko Electronic Industries and Sumitomo Metal Electronics Devices.
The investment will allow the base to make the latest system-on-chip designs in which various technologies are integrated onto the same circuit, helping minimise manufacturing costs.
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