Word: revolutionizing
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Grove and two colleagues he discovered in the company cafeteria--Bruce Deal and Edward Snow--then set out to make silicon usable. After months of work, they discovered that most of the MOS instability was traceable to an impurity--sodium--introduced when the chips were cured. Like a drop of...
In the early 1960s, the computer industry was in the midst of a benign revolution--and Fairchild was a breeding ground for revolutionaries. Early computers were fast, but attempts to make them faster were running into a thermodynamic wall: every time you asked the computer to think harder, it got...
That conviction is what sustains the pilgrims as they toil up the barren, vertiginous slopes from the Great Rift Valley to the high, dusty plain where Axum lies. Many began their journey on the Julian New Year, back in September; even if one can afford to fly or drive, it...
Grove's selection echoes two previous honorees: we recognized his countrymen in 1956 by selecting the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, and his business in 1982, when the computers that Intel's chips were already enabling were named "Machine of the Year." This week's issue also caps a year in which...
2 A People's Tragedy (Viking) In this tale of what went wrong with the Russian Revolution, Cambridge historian Orlando Figes deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic bloodlust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. Plus, Figes argues, stupidity ruled the times, quite literally...