Developments like the use of cheap silicon make the case for switching to LED lighting even more compelling.
That, even in this downturn, is not the case in Silicon Valley, Seattle or Shanghai.
In the case of silicon, it's galloped for 41 years, ever since Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments shrunk a transistor from three dimensions into two and etched it in silicon.
This will almost certainly be the case should Silicon Valley Group be sold to the Netherland's ASML. The latter has made no secret of its desire to eliminate what is today an increasingly formidable competitor -- thanks to many tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars invested in enhancing SVG's ability to bring to market state-of-the art, high-end lithography machines used to mass-produce sophisticated microcircuitry.
Silicon Valley pundits see this as a test case that may open floodgates for a long string of follow-up indictments.
In my case, acupuncturist Nina Hernandez inserted about 35 silicon-tipped needles in my face--at the crow's-feet lines, the laugh lines and especially the lateral forehead lines.
He cited a recent case before California's 6th Appellate Court in Silicon Valley, where police pulled over a driver expected of driving under the influence.
If you need more evidence that the antidumping status quo is weighted heavily against import-consuming U.S. industries, consider this gem: three of the nine mineral raw materials that are the subject of the U.S. case against China in the WTO (magnesium, silicon metal, and coke) are simultaneously subject to U.S antidumping restrictions.
The case has raised eyebrows in the usually chummy world of Silicon Valley venture capital.
It can be made a model of DNA, or a model of a whole city like this one is, and sometimes they can make the model exist in the silicon of a computer, so you've got a computer model, and other times, they actually use real silicon and sand, which they're doing it, in this case, like a giant hands-on model.
It is a rare glimpse into the families of two founders and how the start up culture of Silicon Valley is often so close, so personal, and in this particular case, spectacularly nasty.
The case has raised the issue of gender in the tightly-knit world of Silicon Valley venture capital.
In this case the one being pulled back in is Benchmark Capital, one of the most envied firms in Silicon Valley.
Take the case of Singularity University, a non-profit educational institution located at Moffitt Field in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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