Intel Cancels Digital TV Chip Market - What Next?

[Ed]

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http://olympics.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6576456

 

[Guest]

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George Macdonald wrote:

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> Right now big money, govt. & private, seems to be following MEMS
> and err, nano-tech, whatever that means.;-)
>

Intel is electrical engineers and computer scientists or physicists and
materials scientists? If you can do the things that seem like will be
required to make transistors work at 25nm, you could plausibly be
looking for things to do that are far afield from microprocessors.

RM

 

[keith]

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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:41:04 +0000, Robert Myers wrote:

> George Macdonald wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Right now big money, govt. & private, seems to be following MEMS
>> and err, nano-tech, whatever that means.;-)
>>
>
> Intel is electrical engineers and computer scientists or physicists and
> materials scientists?

....and lawyers, and marketeers, and... ;-)

> If you can do the things that seem like will be
> required to make transistors work at 25nm, you could plausibly be
> looking for things to do that are far afield from microprocessors.

....and if you can't? You look for things even further afield. ;-)

--
Keith