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chipmaker — chipmaking, n. /chip may keuhr/, n. a manufacturer of electronic chips. [CHIP1 + MAKER] * * * … Universalium
chipmaker — chipmaking, n. /chip may keuhr/, n. a manufacturer of electronic chips. [CHIP1 + MAKER] … Useful english dictionary
Silicon on insulator — technology (SOI) refers to the use of a layered silicon insulator silicon substrate in place of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing, especially microelectronics, to reduce parasitic device capacitance and thereby… … Wikipedia
MOS Technology 6502 — The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8 bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full featured CPU on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one… … Wikipedia
PowerPC — is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM . Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high performance processors. PowerPC was the… … Wikipedia
Cray-3 — The Cray 3 was a vector supercomputer intended to be Cray Research s successor to the Cray 2. The system was to be the first major application of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors in computing. The project was not considered a success, and… … Wikipedia
Terry Matthews — Sir Terence Hedley Matthews OBE, P.Eng., F.I.E.E. F R Eng (born 1943 in Newport, Wales) is a serial high tech entrepreneur, and Wales first billionaire.Matthews has founded over 60 companies in the United Kingdom and Canada in the high tech… … Wikipedia
Rock's law — Rock s Law, named for Arthur Rock, says that the cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years. As of 2003, the price had already reached about 3 billion US dollars.Rock s Law can be seen as the economic flipside to… … Wikipedia
Power Architecture — is a broad term to describe similar instruction sets for RISC microprocessors developed and manufactured by such companies as IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Tundra and P.A. Semi. The governing body is Power.org, comprising over 40 companies and… … Wikipedia
Self-aligned gate — A self aligned gate is a design arrangement where a highly doped gate in a MOSFET is used as a mask for the doping of the source and drain around it. This technique ensures that the gate will always overlap the edges of the source and drain. The… … Wikipedia
