Reinventing silicon circuits: mighty chips

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Semiconductor devices are the building blocks of computer chips and consumer electronics products, and the use of semiconductor devices, in the 1990s, will become more critical. The development of clever circuitry is an important goal for the US semiconductor industry, but the cost of building manufacturing plants is becoming too expensive. Computer chips are expected to become more specialized, and performance is expected to improve dramatically; one million transistors now can fit on a chip and close to 100 million transistors will be able to fit on a chip by the end of the decade. The development of other technologies in the 1990s, including massive parallel processing, will have an increasing effect on the semiconductor industry.

Technological forecasting, United States economic conditions, Venture capital, Trends, Future of Computing, Semiconductor Industry, Foreign Competition

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DVD Fight Intensifies: Microsoft and Intel to Back Toshiba Format

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Software giant Microsoft Corp., and chip maker Intel Corp. have decided to use the high definition DVD technology being developed by Toshiba Corp.

United States, Prepackaged software, Product development, Japan, Joint ventures, Household audio and video equipment, Computer software industry, Software industry, Toshiba Corp., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., INTC, Consumer electronics industry, MSFT, Company joint venture, Videodisc players, DVD players

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