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Word: superchip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one company, Texas Instruments, has stubbornly refused to give up the race with the Japanese to make ever more densely packed memory chips. Its experimental, 4 million-bit chip contains components smaller than one micron, or .000039 of an inch. Now that the company has created a superchip, the tougher task will be to manufacture them by the millions before the wily Japanese can catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Crunch From Foreign Chips | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...successful maker of big mainframe computers. Amdahl audaciously planned to build a new supercomputer based on a revolutionary semiconductor chip that would be far faster than conventional ones. But, concedes Trilogy President Frederick White, "it was just too much to bite off." The company abandoned plans for both its superchip and its supercomputer earlier this year, and it lost $73.7 million in 1984's first half. Trilogy now contents itself with the production of conventional chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad Tales off Silicon Valley | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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