Word: siliconized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of the new features are computer circuits that change standard analog TV signals, which are broadcast as a series of undulating waves, into digital impulses -- strings of 0s and 1s. The digital signals can then be transformed by microprocessors -- tiny computers on silicon chips -- to achieve a variety of exotic effects. When the processing is complete, the signals are changed back to analog for display on an ordinary TV picture tube...
...inspectors replaced the computer with a load of sand. The sand was duly shipped to the Institute of Space Research in Moscow. McVey's capture last summer foiled his latest scheme: a plan to steal the designs for a new supercomputer being developed by the Saxpy Computer Corp. in Silicon Valley. The computer can be used to track satellites and missiles...
...open society. The free exchange of information is vital to continued progress in fast-changing fields like computers and lasers. But such openness provides the Soviets with valuable opportunities. For years, the large Soviet consulate in San Francisco has served as an intelligence center from which Moscow monitors Silicon Valley. Soviet agents routinely intercept scientists' telephone calls, sift through unclassified technical publications and, on occasion, plant moles in U.S. industries. For the most part, however, the transfer of technology takes place along quasi-normal lines: through firms in Europe, Japan or elsewhere that are used to transship the pilfered goods...
...also specializes in a new field of research called Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), which involves concentrating large numbers of transistors on small silicon chips. More powerful chips mean computers can occupy less space, allowing advances like the installation of more complex systems in cars, and the replacement of racks of telephone wires with small chips...
...Boston stop in the Route 128 area would take the place of a visit to California's Silicon Valley, which Reagan had reportedly urged. Goldman said however that a California trip is less likely because of the travel time involved...