Format: 2013-05-21
Format: 2013-05-21
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Semiconductors

You Never Forget Your First PET: Remembering Jack Tramiel

By Richard Lewington
Apr102012

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International, passed away this week. His isn't the household name it should be. His influence on legions of coders and gamers deserves more. Indeed, in the mid-1980s, Commodore computers dominated the market in a way that few remember today.

Jack's life story, from Holocaust survivor to personal computer pioneer, is amazing, but I was particularly affected by the news because the first two computers I got my hands on were both Commodores.

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New Chipmaking Technology Makes Smarter Smartphones

By Richard Lewington
Dec22010

Faster, smarter and greener than anything that’s gone before. There’s new technology that’s changing the way chips are made, enabling manufacturers to build processing powerhouses for the mobile devices of the future.

It’s becoming incredibly challenging for the industry to shrink chip features to continually deliver higher levels of performance and battery life. Of course, we’ve been saying that for years, but the semiconductor industry always finds a way to extend Moore’s Law, bending the laws of physics in our favor. Today, our customers are working on chips with transistors less than 20nm across: A million of them would fit into the area of the period at the end of this sentence.

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