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...company, now known popularly as Intel, thrived and its product, the silicon microchip...
...boss, the famous chemist Gordon Moore, discovered the secret value of silicon. In 1965, he and his colleagues discovered that little pieces of the element could store and transfer electronic data without emitting energy that would overheat, and ultimately destroy, any computer of practical size...
...drivers and would-be lessees of GM's EV-1 sports coupe are organizing on the Internet. Meanwhile the auto lobby is working on Governor GRAY DAVIS and California legislators. The wild card: a group of Silicon Valley types who embrace the clean machines. As EV-1 driver STEVEN KIRSH, founder of Infoseek, put it last week, "The problem with electric vehicles is lack of product, not demand...
Well, we've waited this long.... With Redmond, Silicon Valley, Washington and Wall Street all waiting with bated breath for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling that Microsoft be torn asunder, the judge raised his gavel Thursday and... gave both sides some more time to think. The government has until Monday to respond to the software giant's latest response, filed Wednesday, and Microsoft has until June 7 to respond to that response to its response. Is either side making any significant concessions? Nope. Will an extra week of crossfire do anything to change the judge's apparent desire...
...Microsoft's chokehold on the industry just loosened a little more," says TIME Silicon Valley writer Chris Taylor. "There are already significant competitors to Intel's chips, but this is an important step in the development of Linux as an alternative to Windows." Linux, says Taylor, is more of a backbone system - and for, say, a kitchen appliance that downloads recipes and keeps electronic tabs on the contents of your refrigerator, AOL will be better able to tailor its own interface to paper on top of Linux's OS guts. For Case and friends, that's not only better...