Word: micros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Years ago, businesses began replacing their computers with large word processors. These dinosaurs, made by companies such as DEC, Lanier and Wang quickly were replaced by versatile micro computers, which could do more than simple word formatting...
...Understanding the surface structure of semi-conductors in the root of understanding micro--electronics," Clowes Professor of Science Henry Ehrenreich said...
...move was the most recent response to evidence that the work involved in creating microchips can lead to miscarriages. Other semiconductor manufacturers, such as Intel, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Advanced Micro Devices, already encourage mothers-to-be to remove themselves from microchip production areas. The latest round of corporate concern originated with Digital Equipment, the computer-manufacturing firm, where a number of women production workers suffered miscarriages over the past five years. Digital commissioned a study of the problem by Harris Pastides and Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's division of public health...
...supercomputers. The consortium's member firms agreed to pool the results of jointly financed long-term research conducted at an Austin center on such subjects as artificial intelligence and the making of silicon microchips. The original MCC roster was an honor roll of technological titans, including Digital Equipment, Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell and National Semiconductor. Subsequently other respected firms, including 3M and Boeing, joined, and the current membership numbers...
...years, the industry has laid off 65,000 workers and is expected to post total operating losses of $800 million this year. Even the most innovative stars have been humbled. Earlier this month Intel startled Wall Street by posting a record quarterly loss of $114.2 million. Advanced Micro Devices said it lost $46.9 million during the comparable quarter and announced its first layoffs in a decade, dismissing 500 of its 13,300 workers. Many smaller companies that have developed highly advanced manufacturing processes, notably GCA of Andover, Mass., and Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho, are now in deep financial trouble...