Word: vlsi
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While an undergraduate, Morris took ComputerScience 148, "Introduction to VLSI Design," anddid a project on UNIX security as part of hiscourse requirements...
...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...
Among the things Hambrecht, 48, grows best are seedling companies. As a general partner in San Francisco-based Hambrecht & Quist, he has nourished several electronics firms in the fertile fields of Silicon Valley, including Convergent Technologies and VLSI. Unlike most other investment companies, Hambrecht & Quist will do it all for clients: provide venture capital, underwrite stock issues and lend management help...
Traditionally, the stages in computer development have been determined by advances in the technology of the inner components of the machines. The first generation relied on vacuum tubes, the second on transistors, the third on integrated circuits and the fourth, just emerging, relies on very-large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI), with chips so compact they must be designed by another computer. The fifth generation will arrange large numbers of VLSI chips in parallel, clearing the way for dramatic breakthroughs in speed and power. More important, these computers will use their new potency not only to process mathematical data, like most...