At work or play, he's the captain

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Howard Sachs, VP and Gen Mgr of Fairchild Semiconductor's Advanced Processor Div, heads the so-called 'Clipper Division' at Fairchild. The division is named after its first product, a 32-bit Unix-based microprocessor with two cache memory units that runs faster than any other microprocessor currently on the market. Six companies have announced their intention to use the Clipper in their products, and five have placed their orders: Integraph, Specs GmbH from West Berlin, Opus Systems, Zaiaz, and Benchmark Technologies in England. From the start of the Clipper project, the goal was to achieve the performance of DEC's VAX 11-780 on a single chip; Sachs had decided to use standard cells in the architecture. A brief biography of Sachs and a discussion of his lifestyle and technological philosophies are provided.

Integrated circuits, Microprocessor, CPUs (Central processing units), Circuit design, Technology, Product introduction, Biographies, Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc., Executive, Biography, 32-Bit, New Technique, technical, Sachs, Howard

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He builds tools for designers

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Amr Mohsen was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1947 and educated at universities there and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Mohsen was the leader in the development of the 256K-bit CMOS DRAM chip. He started two companies with the goal of bringing the programming of custom microelectronics to the engineer's desktop. The latest company is Actel Corp, founded in 1985. He raised $9 million in capital with the promise that he could develop a desktop configurable channeled gate array system. The first chips with antifuses as unconducting links between logic gates were introduced in Jul 1988. His latest company is Connectus, which will start work on desktop programmability at the interconnections between components.

Interview, Microelectronics, Electrical engineering, Entrepreneur, Mohsen Amr, Actel Corp.

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Red hot: today LEDs come in yellow, orange, green, turquoise, blue-violet, and even white. But first there was red -- and first there was Nick Holonyak

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In 1962, Nick Holonyak Jr, the winner of the 2003 IEEE Medal of Honor, devised the first visible laser diode, which was red. Since then, l ight-emitting diodes (LED), which ?now come in all colors, have evolved into a $3.5 billion industry.

Semiconductor Devices, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Executive changes & profiles, Light Emitting Diodes, Industry Overview, Economic aspects, Semiconductor device, Electronic components, Forecasts and trends, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Cover Story, Achievements and awards, Market trend/market analysis, Personalities, Light-emitting diodes, LEDs, Semiconductor lasers, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Holonyak, Nick, Jr.

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