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...light electronics companies clustered in Santa Clara County's famed Silicon Valley flourish along with the aerospace industry. But after flashing into the age of microprocessors during the past decade, the microchip industry is drawing up its wagons, wondering if it can withstand an onslaught from the Orient. Warns Hewlett-Packard President John Young: "The Japanese are learning how the game is played and how it's scored...
...production of integrated circuits, the hottest and most highly competitive field of advanced industrial technology. The worldwide semiconductor market is expected to soar to $100 billion annually by the end of the century. Moreover, the industry's key product, the confetti-size sliver of silicon known as the microchip, is revolutionizing everything from giant computers to tiny home appliances, making possible a whole new generation of low-cost machines that can "think" and "talk." Says Electronics Analyst Benjamin Rosen: "Within 20 years, microchips will be as economically important as autos, steel, energy and chemicals-a basic global industry without...
Electricity monitors. Even if a homeowner has reduced electricity consumption to a minimum, there is always an other watt or two that can be saved. That is the theory behind electricity monitors, which use microchip technology and digital display to calculate the dollars-and-cents value of the electricity being used in a house at any given moment. The idea is that once a homeowner sees what he is actually spending for electricity, he will become far more conscientious about turning off lights and, in the case of electric heat, lowering the thermostat. According to tests by the University...
...Borges of scientific culture, whose "mortal engines" promise that mystery will not end with the last flesh-and-blood human. Reading A Perfect Vacuum, one can easily imagine banks of Lemian cybernoids arguing whether man exists and how many science-fiction writers could fit on the head of a microchip. - R.Z. Sheppard