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The Silicon Revolution

Author : Armand Van Dormael
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781478150732
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Silicon Revolution written by Armand Van Dormael and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years ago, Armand Van Dormael decided to buy a computer and found that the European electronics companies had given up production. This prompted him to investigate the cause of their demise. To his surprise, he discovered that the program-controlled electromechanical computer, the commercial computer, the transistor, the transistor radio, the microcomputer and the www originated in Europe. Historians have covered every phase and aspect of semiconductor science and computer technology as it developed in the United States. But the pioneering breakthroughs by German and French scientists are practically unknown. The Silicon Revolution tries to fill the gap. The book traces the theoretical foundations of computing, from Leibniz's algorithms to the invention of the transistor and of the microcomputer. Since hardly any literature is available, it refers mainly to published company histories, newspaper and magazine articles. The author came to know Herbert Matare who, in 1953, developed the first functional transistors for the French government. He moved to the United States, but was careful not to mention his invention. Fifty years later, the NY Times brought his name to public attention. In April 1972, the release of the 8008 microprocessor inaugurated the era of integrated electronics. Francois Gernelle used the component to build the Micral, the world's first microcomputer. He set up a production company, but was unable to compete. After the War, European governments watched American companies take control of their markets. Convinced that research and development should be fostered through a European industrial policy, huge subsidies were granted to five 'national champions'. The industry became dependent on subsidies, tariffs and other defensive strategies. Unable to compete globally, within a few years it was extinct, leaving the market to American and Asian companies. In 1980, IBM brought together Intel and Microsoft and established the IBM PC standard. Intel supplies the chips and Microsoft the word processing program. Over the years, they established a standard-based quasi-monopoly by running a treadmill of product obsolescence and upgrades. They keep their dominance, while making a graceful transition from one standard to another.

The Invention of the Silicon Chip

Author : Windsor Chorlton
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9781403400734
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of the Silicon Chip written by Windsor Chorlton and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events surrounding the development of the silicon chip, its uses, and its impact on civilization.

Silicon Photonics

Author : Daryl Inniss
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128029927
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Silicon Photonics written by Daryl Inniss and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon photonics uses chip-making techniques to fabricate photonic circuits. The emerging technology is coming to market at a time of momentous change. The need of the Internet content providers to keep scaling their data centers is becoming increasing challenging, the chip industry is facing a future without Moore’s law, while telcos must contend with a looming capacity crunch due to continual traffic growth. Each of these developments is significant in its own right. Collectively, they require new thinking in the design of chips, optical components, and systems. Such change also signals new business opportunities and disruption. Notwithstanding challenges, silicon photonics’ emergence is timely because it is the future of several industries. For the optical industry, the technology will allow designs to be tackled in new ways. For the chip industry, silicon photonics will become the way of scaling post-Moore’s law. New system architectures enabled by silicon photonics will improve large-scale computing and optical communications. Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Next Information Revolution outlines the history and status of silicon photonics. The book discusses the trends driving the datacom and telecom industries, the main but not the only markets for silicon photonics. In particular, developments in optical transport and the data center are discussed as are the challenges. The book details the many roles silicon photonics will play, from wide area networks down to the chip level. Silicon photonics is set to change the optical components and chip industries; this book explains how. Captures the latest research assessing silicon photonics development and prospects Demonstrates how silicon photonics addresses the challenges of managing bandwidth over distance and within systems Explores potential applications of SiP, including servers, datacenters, and Internet of Things

The Silicon Revolution

Author : Mukudai Jyoji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781583481400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Silicon Revolution written by Mukudai Jyoji and published by . This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book is written in Japanese] This book is one of the Tachibana Publishing Future Book Series (Japanese Edition), a series of books with the world’s leading futurists and social analysts. This series looks at future perspectives in a variety of fields- economics, ecology, management, leadership, stock markets, culture, and social issues. Activated silicon is one of the most discussed topics among corporations today. In The Silicon Revolution, Mukudai Jyoji advocates farming with a soil activating agent which incorporates a revolutionary new type of activated silicon. This book offers the key to reclaiming our Earth from pollution and the loss of arable land.

The Silicon Idol

Author : Michael Shallis
Publisher : New York : Schocken Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Silicon Idol written by Michael Shallis and published by New York : Schocken Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of computer technology on the structure of society and argues that computers are dehumanizing.

Fearless Genius

Author : Doug Menuez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476752737
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Fearless Genius written by Doug Menuez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning documentary photographer delivers a stunning visual history of the Silicon Valley technology boom, in which he was witness to key moments in the careers of Steve Jobs and more than seventy other leading innovators as they created today’s digital world. An eye-opening chronicle of the Silicon Valley technology boom, capturing key moments in the careers of Steve Jobs and more than seventy other leading innovators as they created today’s digital world In the spring of 1985, a technological revolution was under way in Silicon Valley, and documentary photographer Doug Menuez was there in search of a story—something big. At the same time, Steve Jobs was being forced out of his beloved Apple and starting over with a new company, NeXT Computer. His goal was to build a supercomputer with the power to transform education. Menuez had found his story: he proposed to photograph Jobs and his extraordinary team as they built this new computer, from conception to product launch. In an amazing act of trust, Jobs granted Menuez unlimited access to the company, and, for the next three years, Menuez was able to get on film the spirit and substance of innovation through the day-to-day actions of the world’s top technology guru. From there, the project expanded to include the most trailblazing companies in Silicon Valley, all of which granted Menuez the same complete access that Jobs had. Menuez photographed behind the scenes with John Warnock at Adobe, John Sculley at Apple, Bill Gates at Microsoft, John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins, Bill Joy at Sun Microsystems, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove at Intel, Marc Andreessen at Netscape, and more than seventy other leading companies and innovators. It would be fifteen years before Menuez stopped taking pictures, just as the dotcom bubble burst. An extraordinary era was coming to its close. With his singular behind-the-scenes access to these notoriously insular companies, Menuez was present for moments of heartbreaking failure and unexpected success, moments that made history, and moments that revealed the everyday lives of the individuals who made it happen. This period of rapid, radical change would affect almost every aspect of our culture and our lives in ways both large and small and would also create more jobs and wealth than any other time in human history. And Doug Menuez was there, a witness to a revolution. In more than a hundred photographs and accompanying commentary, Fearless Genius captures the human face of innovation and shows what it takes to transform powerful ideas into reality.

Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]

Author : Andy Hertzfeld
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596007191
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Revolution in The Valley [Paperback] written by Andy Hertzfeld and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle on spine: The insanely great story of how the Mac was made.

The Chip

Author : T.R. Reid
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307432033
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Chip written by T.R. Reid and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. In this completely revised and updated edition of The Chip, T.R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their invention and of its growth into a global information industry. This is the story of how the digital age began.

The Digital Revolution

Author : Inder Sidhu
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0134291379
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Digital Revolution written by Inder Sidhu and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive transformations driven by digital technology have begun. The Digital Revolution gives you a complete roadmap for navigating the breathtaking changes happening now and shows you how to succeed. Silicon Valley executive, thought leader, and New York Times best-selling author Inder Sidhu shows how cloud computing, social media, mobility, sensors, apps, big data analytics, and more can be brought together in virtually infinite combinations to create opportunities and pose risks previously unimaginable. You’ll learn how digital pioneers are applying connected digital technologies, also known as the Internet of Everything, to dramatically improve financial performance, customer experience, and workforce engagement in fields ranging from healthcare to education, from retail to government. Sidhu combines the practical perspective of practitioners with the extensive experience of experts to show you how to win in the new digital age. He takes you behind the scenes, engaging with business leaders from Apple, Google, Facebook, Cisco, Intel, Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, RSA, Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare, and so on and with academic leaders from Stanford, Yale, Wharton, MIT, Coursera, Khan Academy, and more and reveals their winning strategies and execution tactics for your benefit. Sidhu also discusses the key challenges of privacy, security, regulation, and governance in depth and offers powerful insights on managing crucial ethical, social, cultural, legal, and economic issues that digitization creates. He shows what the digital revolution will mean for you, both personally and professionally--and how you can win. Learn how you can leverage the digital revolution to Deliver superior customer experiences Improve your organization’s financial performance Drive employee productivity, creativity, and engagement Build smart, efficient cities brimming with opportunity Make education more effective and relevant Achieve better health outcomes Make retail compelling, convenient, and profitable Balance privacy with security Protect yourself before, during, and after a cyberattack Accelerate your career and live a better life

Fundamental Aspects of Silicon Oxidation

Author : Yves J. Chabal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642567118
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Fundamental Aspects of Silicon Oxidation written by Yves J. Chabal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses silicon oxidation in a tutorial fashion from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints. The authors report on the state of the art both at Lucent Technology and in academic research. The book will appeal to researchers and advanced students.

The Cloud Revolution

Author : Mark P. Mills
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 164177231X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud Revolution written by Mark P. Mills and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what’s really coming. The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the “new normal,” where ordering a ride or food on a smartphone or trading in bitcoins is as good as it’s going to get. Another foresees a dystopian era of widespread, digitally driven job- and business-destruction. A third believes that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars. But according to Mills, a convergence of technologies will instead drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the “Roaring 2020s.” It will come not from any single big invention, but from the confluence of radical advances in three primary technology domains: microprocessors, materials, and machines. Microprocessors are increasingly embedded in everything. Materials, from which everything is built, are emerging with novel, almost magical capabilities. And machines, which make and move all manner of stuff, are undergoing a complementary transformation. Accelerating and enabling all of this is the Cloud, history’s biggest infrastructure, which is itself based on the building blocks of next-generation microprocessors and artificial intelligence. We’ve seen this pattern before. The technological revolution that drove the great economic expansion of the twentieth century can be traced to a similar confluence, one that was first visible in the 1920s: a new information infrastructure (telephony), new machines (cars and power plants), and new materials (plastics and pharmaceuticals). Single inventions don’t drive great, long-cycle booms. It always takes convergent revolutions in technology’s three core spheres—information, materials, and machines. Over history, that’s only happened a few times. We have wrung much magic from the technologies that fueled the last long boom. But the great convergence now underway will ignite the 2020s. And this time, unlike any previous historical epoch, we have the Cloud amplifying everything. The next long boom starts now.

The New Alchemists

Author : Dirk Hanson
Publisher : Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316343428
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The New Alchemists written by Dirk Hanson and published by Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Silicon Valley

Author : David A. Laws
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972387415
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Silicon Valley written by David A. Laws and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon Valley: Exploring the Communities Behind the Digital Revolution is a photo essay and souvenir guide to the Santa Clara Valley landscape and communities where engineers and scientists learned how to turn sand (silicon) into gold (computer chips).

The Microelectronics Revolution

Author : Tom Forester
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780631125723
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Microelectronics Revolution written by Tom Forester and published by Blackwell Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the silicon chip revolution and its impact on society.

Hackers

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449393748
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Hackers written by Steven Levy and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic," that still thrives today. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.

The Apple Revolution

Author : Luke Dormehl
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448131367
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Apple Revolution written by Luke Dormehl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 26 May, 2010 Apple Inc. passed Microsoft in valuation as the world's largest technology company. Its consumer electronic products - ranging from computers to mobile phones to portable media devices, not to mention its iTunes, iBook and App Store - have influenced nearly every facet of our lives, and it shows no sign of slowing down. But how did Apple - a company set up in the back room of a house by two friends, and one that always marketed itself as the underdog - become the marketplace leader (and the world's second largest company overall), and is it a good thing to have one company hold so much power? In The Apple Revolution Luke Dormehl shares the inside story of how Apple Inc. came to be; from the formation of the company's philosophies and user-friendly ethos, to the "iPod moment" and global domination, leaving you with a deep understanding of how it was created, why it has flourished, and where it might be going next.

Silicon Earth

Author : John D. Cressler
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351830201
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Silicon Earth written by John D. Cressler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in the center of the most life-changing technological revolution the Earth has ever known. In little more than 65 years, an eye-blink in human history, a single technological invention has launched the proverbial thousand ships, producing the most sweeping and pervasive set of changes ever to wash over humankind; changes that are reshaping the very core of human existence, on a global scale, at a relentlessly accelerating pace. And we are just at the very beginning. Silicon Earth: Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology introduces readers with little or no technical background to the marvels of microelectronics and nanotechnology, using straightforward language, an intuitive approach, minimal math, and lots of pictures. The general scientific and engineering underpinnings of microelectronics and nanotechnology are described, as well as how this new technological revolution is transforming a broad array of interdisciplinary fields, and civilization as a whole. Special "widget deconstruction" chapters address the inner workings of ubiquitous micro/nano-enabled pieces of technology, such as smartphones, flash drives, and digital cameras. Completely updated and upgraded to full color, the Second Edition: Includes new material on the design of electronic systems, the future of electronics, and the societal impact of micro/nanotechnology Provides new widget deconstructions of cutting-edge tech gadgets like the GPS-enabled smartwatch Adds end-of-chapter study questions and hundreds of new color photos Silicon Earth: Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Second Edition is a pick-up-and-read-cover-to-cover book for those curious about the micro/nanoworld, as well as a classroom-tested, student-and-professor-approved text ideal for an undergraduate-level university course. Lecture slides, homework examples, a deconstruction project, and discussion threads are available via an author-maintained website.