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.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
In 2008, Intel, the computer chip maker, put its new employees through E-Verify and 12 percent were declared ineligible.
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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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Valley matchmakers swooned recently, after he specifically mentioned the computer-chip group as a segment of interest.
The faster a computer chip runs and the more transistors it has, the more heat it produces.
Such frustrations nudged Lieber toward silicon, the mainstay of the computer-chip business.
AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.
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.
Different in the way the silicon chip is different than the Eniac computer.
Before Advanced Micro Devices filed its lawsuit against Intel in June alleging monumental amounts of bullying behavior, the perennially number two computer chip maker tried hard to get a big name in its corner to verify its claims publicly.
Some of the world's biggest companies suffered huge falls this week, with Dell Computers down 28% for the week, leading computer chip maker Intel down 20%, and leading software makers Sun Microsystems and Oracle all dropping by more than 15% - losing billions of dollars in value.
The megahertz number so often cited in the marketing materials of computer companies refers to the computer's central processing unit chip as a partial measure of its ability to process data.
The university was the subject of a study in 2004 by computer chip maker Intel which showed how the use of notebook computers had increased from 1.2% of students in 1999 to 35% just four years later.
More than two full generations of Moore's law (which says that the number of transistors squeezed on to a computer chip doubles every 18 months) have passed since the tech bubble burst, as have more than three generations of fibre-optics communications technology.
Until 1992, when Lexicon came up with the name Pentium for a computer chip made by Intel Corporation, microprocessors were identified by number.
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.
This belief is partly a gut reaction to the tight grip of Microsoft and Intel, the world's top chip maker, on the personal-computer market.
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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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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By the fifteenth year chip PCs had begun their attack on the top-down computer establishment.
Some researchers believe that it will eventually be possible for a device that contains a single computer chip to analyse all the -omes.
For example, the first chapter involves someone debugging a computer chip.
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.
The chip had the support of computer makers, including Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) and Fujitsu-Siemens .
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola and Nokia, music players like Apple Computer or chip companies Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, HP is also looking to build the business internally.
If the electrodes can be connected successfully to the rest of a chip, the result would be a new type of liquid-fuelled computer.
Being the musically driven person I am, I also modified the Commodore 64 to have a second sound chip (which doubles the amount of simultaneously played instruments) inside the computer.
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