Los Alamos Lab finds way to cut chip toxic waste

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The Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Hewlett-Packard Co. will announce the development of a new technology for reducing toxic waste at chip manufacturing plants. Environmental advocates have criticized companies, such as Intel Corp., for using high levels of water and dumping toxic solvents in the New Mexican desert. The removal of coatings from silicon wafers will be accomplished through a system called "supercritical carbon dioxide remover." The new technology will save up to 10 million gallons of water per chip plant. Los Alamos will license the technology to semiconductor equipment manufacturers.

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Hewlett-Packard has developed a environmentally-safe chip manufacturing techology with Los Alamos

Company Planning/Goals, Strategic alliances, Semiconductor Production Equip, Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Semiconductor production equipment, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Motorola to unveil set-top box that offers many digital tools

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Motorola Inc. is introducing a television set-top box that contains a wide-range of communications, computer, and home-entertainment capabilities. The universal box is called "Blackbird." It includes digital communications and multimedia processing chips. The device enables users to rapidly link up to the Internet through cable, satellite, or telephone connections. It will also offer the playing of digital video-disk movies and video games.

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Introducing TV set-top box that contains a wide-range of communications, computer, and home-entertainment capabilities

Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, CATV Addressable Converters, Motorola Inc., Set-top boxes (Television)

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AMD chip may cut prices of laptops

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Advanced Micro-Devices Inc. has introduced the K6-300 a microproceesor that operates at 300 megahertz. The new chip will be available for $229 as compared to the $637 dollar cost of the IntelPentium II.The new chip should accelerate competition and drive the cost of notebook computers down considerably in 1999.

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Microprocessor Chips, CPUs (Central processing units), Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

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