The Audiophiliac
.mad_center text-align:center .mad_center div, .mad_center table, .mad_center iframe, .mad_center a img margin-left: auto; margin- auto
Cutting Edge
Nanotech - The Circuits Blog
Part of the challenge of semiconductors in the 1950s was developing your own equipment.
Untethered tech: Wireless sensors monitor brain wavesIt used to be that electroencephalography required users to sit still for a computer to track the brains impulses. New advances have made that technology wireless and mobile.
Emotivas astonishing desktop speakerThe Emotiva Pro airmotiv 4 may be the baby in the line, but its the best sounding desktop in its price class.
quonset hut Gordon Moore on the early days of the chip industry,We had to develop the mask- technology as well as the techniques for coating wafers with the photo resist material and so forth. So it was an extensive amount of new technology that we were bringing to bear in our first products, Moore said.
Cutting Edge
&149;Shockleys first cility was a Quonset hut and was pretty dirty.
Again, morehere.
.mad_center text-align:center .mad_center div, .mad_center table, .mad_center iframe, .mad_center a img margin-left: auto; margin- auto
Digital Media
Its part of an ongoing oral history project at SEMI. You cancheck out the full interview, but here are some highlights:
All of the equipment for the photo lithography had to be developed from scratch. Photo lithography had been used for printed circuit boards, but we wanted to really apply it to production silicon technology, and that required everything new, said Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and one of the traitorous eight,in an interview with SEMI, the semiconductor manucturing equipment trade group.
Wont buy Apple products anymore? Then dont stop thereIn the wake of some calls for an Apple boyquonset hutcott, its worth noting that human-intensive mass production has ced problems with abysmal working conditions in just about every major industrial economy.
Technically Incorrect
Cutting Edge
Jobs e-mail to Schmidt suggests no-poaching deal in playA newly unearthed e-mail exchange between Apples Steve Jobs and Googles Eric Schmidt shows Jobs actively telling Google not to try to hire its employees, resulting in the firing of at least one recruiter.
&149;Intel, which got started 40 years ago in the middle of 1968, set a goal of getting its first b up and running that year. It met the goal on December 31.
&149;At Shockley Semiconductor, engineers developed a machine for masks, which define circuit patterns on a chip, that used lenses from movie cameras.
&149;Moore and others experimented early on with the idea of using gallium arsenide, rather than silicon, for transistors, but realized silicon would provide more bang for the buck. Gallium arsenide remains a relatively niche market today.
.mad_center text-align:center .mad_center div, .mad_center table, .mad_center iframe, .mad_center a img margin-left: auto; margin- auto
Gordon Moore in 2007.
A self-driving car, but thankfully a BMWBMW has revealed that it, too, has entered the self-driving car arena, inserting self-driving technology in a 5 Series car.
Apple Talk
Hydrogen sponge could extend EV driving rangeNovel molecules with as much suce area per volume as a football field could be used to store more hydrogen than compressed gas, extending the range of fuel-cell electric vehicles.
A thermal battery for villages in IndiaStartup Promethean Power had to ditch its dream of solar-powered milk chillers in rural India, but hit upon a novel energy storage system thats cheaper and overcomes the unreliable grid.
Social-network update: Facebook up; Twitter slow?Hackers did not take down Facebook today, as they had earlier claimed they would. Meanwhile, the pace of tweets appears to have slowed amid an ongoing Twitter boycott. And Twitters lawyer responds.
