Word: silicon
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...boys so nettled about? The good ol' U S of A didn't get to be the economic butt-kicker it undeniably is today by keeping to itself. A McDonald's on every street corner, a pair of blue jeans on every butt. And a little tangle of American silicon on everybody's desk. Take the 80s (please). Bushido was all the rage, Detroit was in the tank ? the Japanese were better at everything, and the American century was over. Take Gung Ho, a culture-clash Ron Howard heart-warmer starring a young Batman (Keaton) and an older Long...
Stunts like this are why even many Silicon Valley libertarians secretly hope Justice reins in Gates before it's too late. Klein confirmed last week that his investigation of Microsoft remains "ongoing and wide-ranging." Microsoft's planned integration of Explorer into Windows 98 could trigger the most critical antitrust battle since the feds broke up Ma Bell in '84. Gates understands that the browser is the soul of the new machine that will carry us all into the 21st century, and he won't back down. "The point of antitrust law," Myhrvold argues, "is to say, 'Is there...
Klein began probing Microsoft's browser-licensing practices partly in response to furious complaints from rival softwaremakers like Netscape. That Silicon Valley company, which is fighting to keep its 60% share of the browser market from being overrun by Microsoft, has so far handed over thousands of pages of documents. As Klein sees it, the ultimate goal in the case is to keep Bill Gates or anyone else from blocking innovation in the markets for software and personal computers. "This is an enormously challenging time in terms of the application of antitrust law to a fast-moving industry," Klein says...
...company, Silicon Graphics, had no choice but to capitulate...
...second problem was more subtle: a wire that is .25 microns wide is so small that once you've built it, you can't touch it. So instead of trying to unroll tiny wires onto silicon chips, microprocessor engineers laid down a thin sheet of metal and etched away everything they didn't want. What was left were microscopic paths of metal just wide enough to carry a current. But while chipmakers had developed any number of ways to etch aluminum, no one had yet figured out how to etch copper. Doing that, IBM suspected, would require inventing a whole...