Qualcomm is heir apparent at the silicon end of the high mobility business.

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Rather, power consumption still haunts the company that ran up against the limits of power in 2004 with its top-end silicon at 4GHz.

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And while the rest of the nation wonders when the hemorrhaging will end, Silicon Valley is bucking this economic trend and once again proving that innovation and ingenuity can be the engine that drives our country out of these hard times.

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His next book, The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor, is out in July.

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Silicon Valley snickered that this was the end of Oracle.

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In the end, Warby turned away interest from Silicon Valley firms such as New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners.

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Spider is a step toward AMD's goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.

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Particularly in Silicon Valley and New York, we see the world through high-end devices, but those don't exist in most of the world.

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Urban women in India are spending more on looking good, signing up for aerobics, skin treatment, silicon implants and even those nose or jaw jobs that, at times, end in disaster.

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All this is necessary to produce the infinitely small patterns on the silicon wafers (like the one I am holding in the photo) that end up becoming transistors interconnected into elaborate circuits.

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Clock speed is also TBD, and the early silicon on demo at the show wasn't operating anywhere close to its top end.

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To this end, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a significant departure from traditional silicon technologies and a very promising path to solving the challenge of energy efficiency.

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My view in The End of Medicine (if you can get through the funny stories) is that Silicon Valley will save the day with ever cheaper technology.

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But silicon-on-insulator, first used in costly satellite and military applications, is practical for only high-end chips.

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