In comparing drug companies (or software or chip or computer companies), you can look not only at the ratios of price-to- earnings but also at the ratio of price-to-innovation-adjusted earnings.
Some executives at chip and computer system makers weren't told about Surface until days before the launch event, and even then were informed about the project only in broad strokes, according to people familiar with the matter.
One woman was on her way to work at Intel, the computer chip maker.
"This is like the 1970s in the computer chip business, " says Splinter, flashing a 200-watt smile.
Slowdowns at computer chip makers, who buy nearly all of Applied's equipment, hit hard.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
Computer chip giant Intel (INTC) announced that revenue for its third quarter will be below analyst estimates.
The faster a computer chip runs and the more transistors it has, the more heat it produces.
Another student, named Yushi Wang, applied the principles of quantum physics to design a faster computer chip.
Compare an innovation as incredibly mundane as a new plastic lid for paint cans with a whiz-bang, new computer chip.
This first offering from Proteus is a placebo, with silicon computer chip attached.
In 2008, Intel, the computer chip maker, put its new employees through E-Verify and 12 percent were declared ineligible.
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Even so, Jurvetson has one early win: In May portfolio company Coatue was acquired by a major computer chip maker.
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It has even developed a new computer chip, jointly with IBM and Toshiba, to run the sophisticated graphics that today's gamers demand.
UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.
Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number.
The chief executive of Arm Holdings, whose computer chip technology powers Apple and Samsung smartphones, is retiring after 12 years in the role.
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Some researchers believe that it will eventually be possible for a device that contains a single computer chip to analyse all the -omes.
Its Sparc computer chip and Solaris operating system have been made less relevant by Microsoft Windows, Intel chips and the open-source Linux operating system.
For example, the first chapter involves someone debugging a computer chip.
Small organic molecules won't dissolve in a liquid and so must be deposited onto a screen using a process similar to etching a standard computer chip.
How many jobs would it have cost us if past Congresses decided not to support the basic research that led to the Internet and the computer chip?
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Anderson would consider putting a computer chip in the ball and a laser on the goal line to replace the time-consuming debates and video reviews of scoring.
Think of that computer chip in your Wii or iPad that goes through as many thoughts in a second as you will have heartbeats in your entire life.
He ate dutifully, but without affect, as if some inner computer chip were responsible for the opening and closing of his lips and the gentle modulations of his throat.
Among its innovations: a sensor that warns firefighters of an impending building collapse, lighter breathing apparatus and a computer chip that monitors firefighters' vital signs inside a burning building.
The upgrade on the machine includes a boost to the system bus--the primary pathway between the central processing chip and the computer's memory, from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.
In the same way, knowing the activity of every wire on every chip in my computer wouldn't tell me much if I didn't also know the program my machine was running.
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Their brain cells were structured together into columns, an innovation that could be repeated like a computer chip to make larger and more powerful minds-- from mice to cats and dogs to humans.
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