At an International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event, AMD demonstrated working silicon of its first true system on chip (SoC) APUs, codenamed "Temash" and "Kabini, " which will be the industry's first quad-core x86 SoCs.
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While Silicon Valley companies were working on the problem, silicon prices fell and Chinese companies like JA Solar, Suntech and Yingli Green Energy rapidly expanded production of conventional solar panels, supported by tens of billions of dollars in inexpensive credit from the Chinese government as well as other subsidies like cheap land.
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D. in mechanical engineering, Raade was working at a Silicon Valley materials science company called Symyx in 2009.
He was interested in focusing on seed and early stage venture and working at a purely Silicon Valley firm, where all the partners could work together face-to-face.
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Some of the smartest people are currently at work in Silicon Valley working on solutions that are designed to meet the challenges of this new information economy.
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After Detkin came aboard, he started working his contacts in Silicon Valley, cold-calling law firms, licensing agencies and patent agents to identify bankrupt or distressed clients who were interested in selling patent portfolios.
's fabled Palo Alto Research Center in Silicon Valley, working with colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute.
No, and it will be years before it will be if Google is the only Silicon Valley company working on it.
Some chief ministers are also trying to set up new colleges in their states with the help of Indian software billionaires working in America's Silicon Valley.
In addition to working on professional projects at Silicon Valley tech companies, they complement the experience with cultural activities that enrich their understanding of American life.
For those old enough to remember, in the late 1990s Transmeta was the It company of Silicon Valley, working in stealth mode as it attracted venture capital, smart people, and a lot of buzz.
For the past eight years at Tohoku he has been working on a new type of silicon semiconductor that has a three-dimensional design (see diagram, below).
Another such story, related to me by Steve Blank in a recent interview, recounts a desperate situation for another pioneering Silicon Valley electronics manufacturer: Its recipe for doping (preparing) silicon wafers had stopped working.
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Twitter is working hard to make Gotham the next Silicon Valley, with Facebook tagging right along.
The media and blogosphere had much to say on what her selection meant for women, Yahoo, Silicon Valley, pregnant women, working mothers, fashion, and an entire generation.
Dr Lin is already testing a waveguide designed to steer light with a wavelength of 1.5 microns, and he is also working on three-dimensional waveguides made of silicon, which will provide almost total control over the path the light takes, and make really complex optical circuits possible.
Now, from Silicon Valley to Shanghai, technologists are working on the next round of solar technologies.
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It does that by working closely with chip designers to get ever more functions burned into silicon and by lending its purchasing clout and efficiency skills to Delta Networks.
And knowing the competitive culture of Silicon Valley, I doubt that any of the Yahoo employees working from home are limiting themselves to four hours of work before lunch and four after.
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"Andy is a Silicon Valley visionary, and his breadth and depth of experience working in the mobile and digital media space will be invaluable as we continue to grow and bring the Leap to market, " said Buckwald.
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Through working hard over the next 15 years, we want Hefei to be the Silicon Valley of China.
We were lucky to start with some of the most talented engineers in Silicon Valley, and we were all proud of what we were working towards and spent a lot of time convincing other really talented people to join.
Working at home, or from coffee shops or parks, seems by many in Silicon Valley to be a birthright.
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Their working model is a shoebox-sized package of electronics and liquid-filled tubes, with a silicon chip at its core.
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Since quitting Toshiba in 1994, he has been working on what he expects will be an even more important invention: a "three-dimensional silicon-based semiconductor, " he says, which will increase the capacity of semiconductors by a factor of ten.
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