Sharp's new finely grained silicon technology could ultimately produce transistors one-thousandth the size of current ones, well in range of holography.
"We build our new technology edifices on the rubble of older technology, " says Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley technology forecaster who relishes telling the story of Disney's ill-fated house of the future and other now neglected technologies.
Rob Enderly, a Silicon Valley technology analyst, says Microsoft knows this standoff can't go on forever.
For silicon CMOS technology, the limit his higher, since reliable capacitors cannot be built smaller than the 10-15nm range.
But his journey to Silicon Valley technology start-up impresario is as interesting and fascinating as the man himself.
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Intel has spent the past two years proving its silicon photonics technology was production-worthy, and has now produced engineering samples.
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In 2010 at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, Jobs touted Retina Display, which relies on traditional silicon LED technology.
This led to a fascinating career path that began with the explosion of Silicon Valley technology drawing the film business toNorthern California.
Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs alone founded about 30% of the Silicon Valley technology companies creating more than 72, 000 jobs in the last fifteen years.
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The idea of using silicon fabrication technology for an implanted device was easy to come by, but the design of the release mechanism was hard.
Silicon Motion Technology Corp. (SIMO) appears to have turned itself around.
The head editor is Owen Thomas, a well-known figure in the Silicon Valley technology scene, having been an editor of Venturebeat, NBC Bay Area and Gawker site Valleywag.
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That work is still ongoing at MIT, but the pair left, with the idea of using the same silicon micromachining technology to build tiny "reformers" that could separate pure hydrogen from alcohol for fuel cells.
It is a leader in silicon-based technology and innovation, offering more than 7, 000 products and services.
Today I join hundreds of leaders in business, finance, technology and policymaking in Silicon Valley for the 2013 Global Technology Symposium.
When folks graduate, they move where their specific industry is dominant: This might be Los Angeles for film and television, Silicon Valley for technology and New York for media.
Spirits run high out here in Silicon Valley that technology will somehow disrupt higher education, mainly by offering the best lectures and lessons in the world to millions of people for mere dollars or less.
In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
During the 2012 election, Obama won technology hub Silicon Valley, continuing a trend of technocrats backing Democrats.
The history of technology and Silicon Valley is closely linked to government investment and research monies sparking new industries.
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Only in Silicon Valley are new technology ventures cultivated from the perfect mix of academic, industry and venture capital resources.
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They assumed a continuing high price for silicon and thus their technology concentrated on making that expensive material more productive.
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Skolkovo, an attempt to create a Silicon Valley-style technology cluster outside Moscow, has won plenty of headlines (see article).
Based on technology from Silicon Valley start-up Generic Media, the software can display images at between four and 10 frames per second.
Omar Tawakol is the CEO of BlueKai, a Silicon Valley-based technology company.
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He notes that there are hints of trouble for IRF in recently weak results from rivals Texas Instruments, Linear Technology and Silicon Laboratories.
It is hard to reach old age in Silicon Valley: your technology goes stale, and young bruisers such as Google and Apple kick away your zimmer frame.
The real hope for significant change in this domain arrives not from hardware or regulations, but from software--Silicon Valley information-technology tamed, civilized and optimized for the building market.
That bubble would burst, of course, but during the great inflation Silicon Valley stopped funding technology companies, got greedy, reached beyond its core competency and began funding business models.
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