So Intel pioneers the microchip, then puts thousands to work building them in Silicon Valley.
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Sequencing technology is decreasing in cost and increasing in power at a rate faster than anything since the microchip.
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Everything from the microchip to the cellphone has either been made in Israel or by Israelis in Silicon Valley.
Beltway statisticians, and most economist bean-counters, still can't measure the productivity resulting from the microchip and the explosion in communications bandwidth.
One noteworthy omission is a discussion of the microchip, a profoundly liberating and creative force very much in character with the American spirit.
Jack had a US microchip, but when he was brought to Dr. Flachaire by Ms. Staal, they were unable to read the microchip.
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The two groups we looked at were pre- and post- 1975, that time in our history when the microchip and GUI changed our world forever.
The Google Doodle on Monday, December 12, paid tribute to Robert Noyce, the father of the microchip and the co-founder of Intel in 1968.
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In little over a decade, the microchip has replaced the oil derrick as the driving force behind the state's economy, making Texas far less dependent on stable commodity prices.
In fact, again, two separate inventions, and the microchip that we use now was Noyce's work as opposed to Kilby, although Kilby finally won a Nobel Prize, which he roundly deserved.
The microchip is performing well in preliminary lab testing.
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Then it was left out in the cold, as Silicon Valley created the microchip revolution and just about all the other excitement of the 1980s and 1990s, down to the dot-com binge.
Strange but true, ARM is currently winning the microchip World Series: some 8bn ARM-designed chips will be sold this year, and are in everything from tablets, to smartphones to televisions and fridges.
"The Society holds a DNA sample for every registered foal born since that date should it be required to identify a pony if for any reason the microchip becomes unreadable, " said its secretary Susan McGeever.
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Even without the fall of the Berlin Wall, and under Mikhail Gorbachev's new management, the Soviet Union would have struggled in vain (Russia struggles still) to adapt this behemoth to the information age and the microchip.
The other benefit of using the microchip is that it can be equipped with biosensors, which means that a doctor can monitor how effectively the drug is treating the disease, and remotely program the device according to adjust to changing circumstances.
The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).
Action 2000, a body set up by the government to co-ordinate its campaign to beat the bug, says that in the past year about 15% of the microchip-controlled production lines in factories have failed tests of whether they can cope with dates beyond 1999.
Better to model yourself on Cohen and seek your fortune in what he predicts are the growth areas of the 21st century: the electronic microchip, the cellular phone and Internet, new discoveries in DNA and the mapping of the human genome.
To understand the ascent of mobile, think about this: Qualcomm, the wireless chip maker, just surpassed the market value of Intel, the titanic microchip company of the computer era.
The type of operating system, the make of microchip, the choice of programming language, the brand of computer all these are of no consequence to his argument, because it applies equally to all computers.
The new microchip is smaller and uses less power than other models in its Atom range.
Trials of the latest microchip cards, which can carry more information and are harder to counterfeit than current basic swipe cards, are taking place.
Take a look at the way Microchip Technology, a Chandler, Ariz.
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If the T9B takes off, expect many others to follow its path to the door of microchip maker CSR of Cambridge, U.K. Its chips are in 60% of the world's Bluetooth-capable devices, including phones, PCs and laptops, even Apple notebooks.
If the T9B takes off, expect many others to follow its path to the door of microchip maker CSR of Cambridge, U.K. Its chips are in 60% of the world's Bluetooth-capable devices, including phones, PCs and laptops, even Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) notebooks.
The Society said that since 2003, all breeders and owners of Exmoor ponies have had the option to microchip their ponies only.
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Last month, the California Institute of Technology developed a terahertz microchip, raising the possibility the technology could one day be packed into hand-held devices.
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