Word: siliconing
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Current top-down methods of chip production use electron beam lithography, an expensive process that involves etching silicon into smaller and smaller pieces. Such methods will eventually hit a limit at which further miniaturization would entail extreme expense...
Ravi Desai admits he's a lousy poet. But he's pretty good at spinning tales. The 31-year-old Harvard graduate talks like the Robin Hood of Silicon Valley, promising to shower info-tech lucre on cash-strapped creative-writing programs across the land. "We need to support the soul as well as the mind," he croons from a two-man consulting firm in Menlo Park, Calif. What Desai actually delivers, however, is a parable about the perils of falling for a dotcom dreamer...
...officials of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, where contributions this year have been running 50% behind the year-ago pace. The foundation suffered major setbacks when the Web portal AltaVista, which had pledged 25,000 IPO shares, postponed the offering last April and then abandoned it altogether in January in the midst of an ice-cold market and following several rounds of layoffs...
...company traces its origins to 1988 and a Russian software start-up called Paragraph. It was among the first to develop handwriting recognition and digital ink technologies, which were licensed by Apple for the Newton and are now used in many new-generation personal digital assistants. Briefly owned by Silicon Graphics, the 3-D business was bought back by Pachikov and relaunched as ParallelGraphics, now one of the top 10 Russian software exporters...
...China's Internet firms face the kind of uncertainty their counterparts are experiencing in London, New York or Silicon Valley. At Sina's no-frills headquarters in Beijing, set in a former primary school, employees openly talk of what's next. "I'm nervous," says one Web writer, as she sits in front of a whiteboard filled with scribbled translations of the English words for superstar, IPO and Red Herring. Sina's top lieutenants are committed to globalization?the company distinguishes itself with websites aimed at overseas Chinese worldwide. But these days, they take slim comfort in the idea that...