Word: semiconductor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, the Chrysler pullout has been followed by a tattoo of smaller but no-less-widely reported U.S. retrenchments. Two weeks ago, employees at an RCA semiconductor plant employing 438 workers near Liêge, Belgium, began picketing with placards attacking the company-not for being part of the American challenge but for deciding to leave. Faced with rising costs, RCA decided to shut down the plant because it was not competitive with the company's other semiconductor plants, including one in Malaysia. B.F. Goodrich, struggling for profits in an overcrowded tire market, closed a West German plant...
...create what in effect is an electron freeway without these obstructing potholes, Bell Physicist Raymond Dingle and his colleagues built a semiconductor made of extremely thin, alternate layers of aluminum gallium arsenide (which they doped) and gallium arsenide (which they left pure). They reasoned that any electrons donated by the impurity would tend to migrate to the adjoining undoped gallium arsenide layer because of their tendency to seek what physicists call a lower energy state. Explains the Australian-born Dingle: "It's rather like the inclination of water to flow downhill." The new design worked. Isolated from the obstructing...
...existing systems. It has also developed a programming system that will enable a store manager to fine-tune his computer to print out exactly the data he needs most, such as which items are selling fastest and whether his customers are responding to sale prices on certain merchandise. National Semiconductor also is turning out a completely computerized system, and so far has sold 45. The other two rivals are Sweda and NCR, which enjoy the advantage of having made cash registers for years. Both companies are concentrating on automated check-out equipment that can be bought on a step...
...result, the valley is speckled with more than 40 firms that have roots tracing to Fairchild. The Wunderkind of them all is Intel Corp., founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, both from Fairchild Semiconductor. Starting with twelve workers, Intel has become the world's largest manufacturer of miracle chips, accounting for 26% of the market and employing 8,000 people in ten plants from California to Malaysia...
...digit) of information. Because each core has a specific location in the precisely designed grid, it can be "addressed" almost instantly: information can be read from any doughnut by means of a third wire passing through each core. These fragile and expensive core memories are now being replaced by semiconductor memories on chips. In addition to such "random access" memories, as they are called, computers have auxiliary memories in the form of magnetic tape or discs. These have the advantage of large capacity and low cost, and are used to store information in bulk...