The other established approach is to take two wafers of silicon, coat each with a thin layer of glass on one side (which is done by baking them in oxygen), and then fuse them together to produce a silicon-glass-silicon sandwich.
It uses a non-silicon material called cadmium telluride to make ultra thin solar panels while the vast majority of its competitors use silicon.
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For any given good, be it a metal lathe or a silicon-wafer saw, most potential buyers will not have access to a physical auction.
Intel last summer said it had developed a research prototype of a silicon-based transceiver with four data channels that each send data at 12.5 gigabits a second.
Comprised of three chips, D-ILA projects an image on to a silicon-based crystal display by creating the image on the chips.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.
One the most well-known retinal implants in the world today is the Argus2 from Second Sight, which is a silicon-based prothesis.
After Alberto Herrera , chief executive of fledgling wireless-sensor network company Medida , pitched his firm to a panel of four top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists--in front of a standing-room-only crowd of some 350 people-- Josh Stein of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson was so impressed that he asked Herrera to set up a meeting.
Since quitting Toshiba in 1994, he has been working on what he expects will be an even more important invention: a "three-dimensional silicon-based semiconductor, " he says, which will increase the capacity of semiconductors by a factor of ten.
Tarek Fahmi, a long-time Silicon Valley patent attorney, sees two key factors at play.
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"Unless you can scale it, it doesn't matter, " said Vinod Khosla, a well-known Silicon Valley investor, while speaking at MIT last week.
This inevitably leads to speculation that Apple has shifted to a 28nm fabrication process, possibly snubbing Samsung's 32nm foundries, but we'd need a proper silicon-level analysis to be certain.
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That is not great compared with the 20% and more achieved by a silicon-based solar cell, the 40% managed by a solar-thermal turbine, or even the 18-20% of one of the new generation of cheap and cheerful thin-film solar cells.
That has fueled the creation of a Silicon Valley-like investment ecosystem that, not surprisingly, has profited many Silicon Valley businesses themselves.
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The transistor itself is composed of a single phosphorous-31 isotope, which has been precisely placed on a base of silicon using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope in an ultra-high vacuum chamber.
Breyer, 47, a partner at Palo Alto-based Accel Partners, is a Silicon Valley veteran known for shepherding the start-ups he invests in to the big leagues.
Indeed, running a big American firm or a Silicon Valley start-up is now riskier than being grand vizier in the court of the Ottoman sultan.
Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton, TiVo's co-founders, were part of the first wave of interactive TV when they worked on a Silicon Graphics -Time Warner trial installation in the early '90s.
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Another time I found myself in a hole when I showed up at a Silicon Valley start-up wearing a suit and tie.
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It went on to list the company's co-operation efforts, and compare the firm to a Silicon Valley start-up with "entrepreneurial spirit" with an "unwavering dedication to innovation".
It's exchanging third-gen Intel Ivy Bridge silicon for a fourth-gen Haswell chip and upgrading from an NVIDIA GTX 660M to a GTX 765M GPU. Oh, and Razer's nixed the HDD options from the big Blade's menu -- the Pro packs a 128GB SSD standard, with optional upgrades to 256 or 512GB.
Nomad is less like a digital version of Conde Nast or Hearst than a Silicon Valley start-up incubator or an independent film studio.
What a come-down for a cornerstone stalwart of Silicon Valley, which put the dynamic concept of Stanford University as feeding ground for technology greatness on the altar of a business culture that stood at the apex of American industry in the 1970s.
"It was like a Wall Street version of a Silicon Valley garage start-up, " says Mr. Silbert.
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Auletta writes: "Help came in the form of Bill Campbell, then sixty-one, a barrel-chested man known throughout Silicon Valley as "the coach.
That's the goal at a shop at Harvard, where Daniel Branton, a biophysicist, and his colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA--a letter at a time--through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.
"Senior partners are doing less work and the younger guys are picking up the slack, " says a 30-year-old junior partner at a Silicon Valley firm.
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