Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chip Hooper of Monterey Peninsula Artists, an agent for the B-52's said that he had not been contacted by the council. "I haven't heard from anyone from [Harvard] who wants to book them, and if they want to book them they better call me," Hooper said...
...Christmas, better act fast. Nintendo, the Japanese manufacturer of this year's hottest toy, expects to produce 1 million Game Boys for sale in the U.S. this season -- but that will meet only half the estimated demand. A portable video-game system that is controlled by a microprocessor chip, Game Boy uses interchangeable cartridges, and it offers stereo sound...
...prime reason for the slump is that corporate customers are cutting back on spending as they go through buyouts, mergers and restructurings. "Big customers are hanging back because they don't have any money," says Robert Noyce, chief executive of Sematech, a consortium of computer-chip makers. At the same time, the industry has graduated from an "original placement" business, in which many companies rushed to automate for the first time, to a "replacement" business, in which corporations buy computers only when they need new models...
...argues conservative pundit George Gilder in his new book, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (Simon & Schuster; $19.95), a lively look at the history and prospects of the U.S. microelectronics industry. Gilder, author of the best-selling Wealth and Poverty, thinks that as computer-chip technology advances, America will widen its lead...
Using the new knowledge of the microcosm -- the invisible region populated by protons, electrons and other subatomic particles -- computer-chip manufacturers have been able to pack more and more information (and value) onto slivers of silicon whose material content represents less than 1% of their total expense. As chips are incorporated into everything from furnaces to cars, the value of these products resides increasingly in the "intelligence" stored in their electronic components. In the future, industrial might will depend less on mass production and more on the creative use of information technology. Gilder calls this phenomenon the "overthrow of matter...