Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than a decade Phyllis Klingebiel and her son Michael shared a monthly ritual. Each would chip in $20, and Michael would spend it on "Pick 6" lottery tickets in their home state of New Jersey. Late on Oct. 2, Phyllis says, Michael woke his parents with dreamlike news...
Faster than you can say Mortal Kombat 2, I hopped over to this store downtown that feeds a growing underground market for the $65 chip that enables a U.S. PlayStation to run Japanese video games. It's illegal, of course. Totally voids the warranty too. But that's where I saw my opening. I figured the unexported stuff had to be educational, if only from a cultural standpoint. I've lived in Japan and can easily imagine the overly protective Sony-Japan marketers holding back all kinds of cool stuff, wrongly assuming that Americans just wouldn't understand it. Like...
...heart of the chip is its execution units. They perform various operations and send results back to the data cache...
...write the cover story, senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo visited Intel chip plants on three continents and spent weeks studying the company, including two days traversing the valley with the peripatetic executive (after some Stanford students mistook the clean-cut journalist for a security man, Grove referred to his chronicler as "Agent Ramo...
...small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized me to the power of the chip and its role in our lives...