The Software Chip
Upstart Transmeta´s pioneering microprocessor chips are heralding a fundamental evolutionary step in the design of computing´s core technology.
MIT News: Jan/Feb 2012
TR: Nov/Dec 2000 PDF issue
Forget billion-dollar fabs. If Joe Jacobson has his way, you may be printing cheap semiconductor chips on your desktop.
Upstart Transmeta´s pioneering microprocessor chips are heralding a fundamental evolutionary step in the design of computing´s core technology.
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Their bedside manner is a tad impersonal. But the computer-assisted robotic systems finding their way into today´s operating room may someday save your life.
A handful of hot startups are exploiting nature´s own methods - vastly accelerated - in order to breed better detergents, drugs and crops.
Researchers from Bell Labs are taking company ideas and using them to start new businesses, some of which could threaten Lucent´s established product lines. So what´s the company doing about it? Supporting them every step of the way.
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