Word: microchipping
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...took a giant step out of the virtual world. After they hooked their computer to a $50,000 commercial plastic model-making machine, it produced actual offspring, not just a model on a computer screen. The only human intervention was installing the robot's little motor and computer-programmed microchip ("neurons...
...does a place seared by its past find its future? How does it move on, even as the nation as a whole is burying its history every minute with the invention of the next microchip or the launch of a new dotcom? "We can't worry about what's going on on Wall Street," says Mayor James Wilson. "We've got to worry about what's going on on Main Street." And right now, Cairo's Main Street is like an open scar left over from the day in 1967 when a black man was found hanged in jail...
...company, now known popularly as Intel, thrived and its product, the silicon microchip...
...Grove and Intel were not out of the woods yet. Intel faced its biggest--and most public--crisis in 1994. After introducing the new Pentium processor, the fastest microchip yet created, Intel engineers found a bug in their new product. At first, Grove did not bend. Refusing to see the public relations implications, he decided to selectively replace only a few computers containing the problematic chip...
...NECAR4, based on a Mercedes-Benz A-class compact sedan, accommodates five people plus luggage, reaches speeds of 90 m.p.h. (145 km/h) and goes about 280 miles (450 km) between fill-ups. "It's comparable," says Ferdinand Panik, head of DaimlerChrysler's Fuel Cell Project, "to the impact the microchip had on computer technology...