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...companies currently account for only 10% of the world's production of the most advanced DRAM chip, the one megabit, which has enough memory to contain the equivalent of 100 pages of double-spaced text. The new venture, called U.S. Memories, plans to manufacture the next generation: the four- megabit chip. Last week IBM disclosed that it is already producing the more powerful semiconductor for use in its own computers and other products. That may give IBM a lead of several months over its Japanese rivals, who have yet to gear up mass production of the four-megabit semiconductor...
Some 93 million miles away, the sun was, at the very least, agitated. In early March, an area of sunspots large enough to contain 70 earth-size planets had come into view around the eastern rim* of the glowing orb. Created by intense magnetic fields and cooler than the surrounding gases, the sunspots were visible as dark blemishes on the fiery surface. Just as astronomers were turning their attention to the mottled region, a bright spot suddenly appeared in its midst. It spread like a prairie wildfire, glowing white hot on the sun's yellow face and quickly expanding...
...blamed by Hydro- Quebec officials for shutting down the power company's system and blacking out parts of Montreal and the province of Quebec for as long as nine hours. These startling phenomena were shrugged off by Sacramento Peak's Neidig. "A really big flare," he says, "can produce enough energy to supply a major city with electricity for 200 million years...
Also radiating from the solar surface is energy in the form of visible light, ultraviolet and X rays. Enough of this energy penetrates the atmosphere to deliver some 100 trillion kW of power to the earth. Reduced to more comprehensible terms, solar radiation amounts to 1.35 kW falling on every square meter of earth, a number that scientists call the solar constant...
...city of Gotham itself. As envisioned by production designer Anton Furst, it seems to be part Transylvania castle, part Star Wars fantasy, part comic book, but mostly a decaying caricature of Manhattan island. The city is covered in shadow and smog. Any superhero who hung out there long enough would inevitably become a bit deranged, but fortunately Batman (Michael Keaton) has a head start...