Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that goal in mind, ten students and I enrolled this past semester in Computer Science 148, "Introduction to VLSI Design," where the term project was designing a very large-scale integrated (VLSI) Computer chip...
...this into some perspective, consider Intel's newly released Pentium chip. This successor to the company's popular 80486 microprocessor contains an astonishing 3.1 million transistors on a die about the size of a quarter...
...design the Pentium, Intel assembled a team of engineers with expertise in computer architecture (how the processor should work), system programming (how it could be used by programmers) and chip design (how the circuits should be laid out). The entire design and testing process took almost four years and cost tens of millions of dollars...
...disturbs some Republicans and others who feel duped by the Hillary Lite that emerged in the latter stages of the campaign after polling found that voters were fearful of what pollsters termed an "empowered Nancy Reagan." If she had her fingers crossed when she was nodding sweetly, baking chocolate-chip cookies and calling herself Hillary Clinton, how many other things might be fudged for political expediency? Republican fund raisers such as Floyd Brown see a bait-and-switch tactic that they hope to capitalize on by portraying her as massively influencing everything from the appointment of the deputy assistant undersecretary...
...still the world's largest 486 maker and will continue to be so -- by far. Given its comparatively modest manufacturing capacity, "AMD is going to be limited to 5% of the market share," predicts Montgomery Securities analyst Thomas Thornhill. Perhaps more important, Intel has already launched the next generation chip, the Pentium, destined to leave the 486 in the dust...