Global effort to make machines that make chips

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International cooperation has become the key in the development of the next generation of semiconductor production equipment. International competition is no longer seen as the threat it used to be and multi-national alliances are needed to develop new technologies in chip-making which cost upwards of one billion dollars. In April 2001, engineers from German, Dutch and American companies will introduce a new semiconductor production machine that etches circuit lines only several hundred atoms across.

International economic relations, World, Special industry machinery, not elsewhere classified, Semiconductor Production Equip, Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing, Innovations, Economic aspects, Forecasts and trends, Industry trend, Technology development, Semiconductor production equipment industry, Semiconductor production equipment, International cooperation

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A Toy With a Story

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Jeri Ellsworth is a self-taught computer designer who has recently developed a new video game device out of twenty-year-old Commodore 64 computer parts. The Commodore 64 joystick is being sold by Mammoth Toys.

Product introduction, New Products/Services, Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Behavior, Video game industry, Video games industry, Personality profile, Computer engineers, Computer design, Ellsworth, Jeri

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No Privacy in Your Cubicle? Try an Electronic Silencer

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Herman Miller will be marketing Babble, a voice-scrambling device designed by Applied Minds Inc. to turn the background noise of an office cubicle environment into meaningless chatter.

United States, Marketing procedures, Household audio and video equipment, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Alliances, partnerships, FURNITURE AND FIXTURES, Licensing/Sales Agreements, Speech Processing Equip, Usage, Marketing, Consumer electronics industry, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Licensing agreements, Furniture industry, Herman Miller Inc., MLHR, Company licensing agreement, Company marketing practices, Speech processing systems, Speech processing equipment, Ferren, Bran, Hillis, Danny, Applied Minds Inc., Babble (Voice I/O device)

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