Behind curtain in digital Oz, the simple chip
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Silicon chips, with their ability to perform numerous mundane computer tasks, continue to revolutionize much of the world. These complex chips answer orders from millions of simple switches. A transistor, or semiconductor, represents the chip's basic switch. Combining millions of transistors has resulted in the modern computer, which can perform assignments that range from simple arithmetic to E-mail. The basic concept of chips originated in the early 1970s, when electronics companies learned to place several transistors on the same chip. Annual innovations now center on engineering smaller transistors, which allows transistors to work in parallel and coordinate problem solving. Denser packing of the smaller transistors also shortens signal routes, which accelerates chips and computers.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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S.E.C. sees tangled dealings at high-tech company
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Ronald Moskowitz found several ways make the stock of his company, Ferrofluidics, to appear to be more valuable than it actually was. Government officials have found that Moskowitz booked false sales and secretly paid Molecular Bioquest to purchase Ferrofluidics stock. The publisher of The International Investor, a newsletter for stockbrokers, investors and analysts, received $1.2 million from Moskowitz to report favorably on Ferrofluidics in his news letter. Moskowitz also announced a $12 million private placement sell of stock that was a sham. He was also able to keep the sales of his stock secret by setting up trusts he supposedly had no control over and moving his Ferrofluidics securities into them.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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