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...younger circles. "If I had talked about how great Atlanta was two years ago, people would have laughed at me," says Beth Reimels, 21, a graduating senior at Boston University who will head there in September even though she has no job. "Now everyone is excited about Hotlanta." Silicon Valley is still looking for engineers, and the Northwest probably has the healthiest economy of any U.S. region...
...tech mumbo jumbo, but Texas Instruments is betting that it will soon be as familiar a term as computer chip. Last week the Dallas-based electronics firm announced the development of the first OEIC, a chip that transmits information not through the cumbersome contemporary method of electrons passing along silicon pathways, but rather through the simplest medium of all: light...
When the light chip reaches the marketplace, sometime within the next 10 years, it will be more compact and up to 20 times as fast as its silicon equivalent. Result: electronic equipment that is quicker, smaller and cheaper, in everything from cars to kitchens to wristwatches. The race for a light chip has been under way for years, and though Texas Instruments is the first to produce one, it still hasn't crossed the real finish line: practical consumer application...
...rush is on to study the properties of buckyballs and explore their possible uses. Scientists have already concluded that the molecule is remarkably durable. Chemist Robert Whetten of UCLA has fired buckyballs at speeds of 27,000 km/h (17,000 m.p.h.) into miniature walls of graphite and silicon. The sturdy spheres bounced back unharmed...
...sources. California's giant Pacific Gas & Electric gets a substantial 14% of its generating capacity from renewable energy sources such as the sun and wind. Its neighbor, Southern California Edison, joined forces this month with Texas Instruments in a six-year, $10 million project that will use low-grade silicon instead of more expensive higher grades to make photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. Says Robert Dietch, a Southern Cal Edison vice president: "This has the potential to be the type of breakthrough technology we've all been looking for in the solar industry...