At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.

Silicon is an essential element in biology, although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals, however various sea sponges as well as microorganisms like diatoms need silicon in order to have structure.

Other methods for copy prevention were also used including asking for a particular word from the documentation included with the game — often a novella like in Silicon Dreams trilogy — or another physical device distributed with the software — e. g. Lenslok as used in Elite.

Silicon also dissolves in hot aqueous alkalis with the evolution of hydrogen, behaving in this way like metals such as beryllium, aluminium, zinc, gallium and indium.

From various high tech companies like Intel and Hewlett Packard the county is sometimes dubbed " the Silicon Valley of Europe ", and had a pick up in construction that predated that of other counties.

Mayor Lucy Harbert responded by bringing in sponsorships from several Silicon Valley-based companies like ScanCafe. com and StartUps. com ( 2 ).

The first product of Flipside Communications Inc. ( which was eventually renamed Red Herring Communications ), the magazine was quickly popular with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and the Valley community of lawyers, accountants, bankers and the like who were part of the technology entrepreneurial ecosystem.

As evidence for this theory of specialization, proponents claim that Marshallian " industrial districts ," or clusters of integrated firms, have developed in places like Silicon Valley, Jutland, Småland, and several parts of Italy.

When industries cluster, like in the Silicon Valley in California, they create urban areas with dominant firms and distinct economies.

As a crystal structure periodic table shows, there are many elements with a FCC crystal structure, like Diamond, Silicon and Platinum and their Brillouin zones and dispersion relations have this 48 fold symmetry.

Once companies are comfortable with services offerings and started realizing the cost savings, many high-tech product companies, including some in Silicon Valley, started offshoring innovation work to countries like South Africa, India, China, Mexico, and Russia.

As a professional web developer ( using the name Marc Eliot Stein ), Asher has also built or collaborated on music websites for Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam, and has worked for seminal Silicon Alley companies like iVillage and Time Warner's Pathfinder. com.

For example, in wealthy suburban areas like California's Silicon Valley, some hospitals ( like Stanford University Medical Center ) offer valet parking for the convenience of patients and their visitors.

It invested in Chip and System design companies like Telsima ( WiMAX chips for broadband ), Montalvo Systems ( low -­ power chips ) and InSilica ( chips for multimedia and digital printing processors ) and Nevis ( secure networking ) with development teams in India for markets in U. S. The timing was right, with Silicon Valley looking at reducing expenditure in the chip development space.

Under his leadership TCS set up Technology Excellence Centers in India that have acquired knowledge, expertise and equipment in specialized technology areas like IBM, Oracle Corporation, SAP, AS400, DEC, HP, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Sun and Tandem.

Many vendors have brought products to market, including traditional film camera vendors like Arri and Panavision, as well as new vendors like RED and Silicon Imaging, and companies which have traditionally focused on consumer and broadcast video equipment, like Sony and Panasonic.

Another innovative Silicon Beach product was SuperCard which, like SuperPaint, superseded the capabilities of an Apple-branded product ( in this case, HyperCard ).

The Silicon Valley-based coalition was backed earlier by companies like Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, had set up an Internet shopping center allowing individuals and businesses to offer their wares and services via CommerceNet's easy-to-use software.

The expansion of the high tech industry along MA-128 has led to the term " 128 " meaning more than just the road itself, but the technology area as a whole, much like Silicon Valley.

Silicon carbide fibers, where the basic polymers are not hydrocarbons but polymers, where about 50 % of the carbon atoms are replaced by silicon atoms, so-called poly-carbo-silanes.

The beautiful, spacious, and carbon easy building is a favorite location for policy makers, school officials, student groups, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to visit and utilize for conferences and for tours.

Changes also included larger 19 " BBS wheels, the use of carbon fiber for the frames of the seats and mirrors, titanium springs which were also 20 % stiffer, and Carbon fibre-reinforced Silicon Carbide ( C / SiC ) ceramic composite brake disks.

Silicon carbide and carbon ( graphite ) are two other refractory materials used in some very severe temperature conditions, but they cannot be used in contact with oxygen, as they will oxidize and burn.

Silicon is more reactive than carbon, which could make it optimal for extremely cold environments.

Silicon is more electropositive than carbon.

Silicon and germanium are quite different in their ability to convert gamma rays to electron showers.

Silicon has largely replaced germanium in semiconducting devices, being cheaper, more resilient at higher operating temperatures, and easier to work during the microelectronic fabrication process.

* Silicon and germanium nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy

Like the bedrock of Silicon Valley was in semiconductors, Silicon Glen also had a significant influence in semiconductor design and manufacturing starting in 1960 with Hughes Aircraft ( now Raytheon ) establishing its first facility outside the US in Glenrothes to manufacture germanium and silicon diodes.

* Silicon germanium

Silicon crystallizes in a diamond cubic crystal structure

Silicon carbide has two similar crystalline forms, which are both related to the diamond structure.

Silicon is a common impurity in diamond films grown by chemical vapor deposition and it originates either from silicon substrate or from silica windows or walls of the CVD reactor.

Silicon carbide single crystal

Some isotopically purified elements are used in smaller quantities for specialist applications, especially in the semiconductor industry, where purified Silicon is used to improve crystal structure and thermal conductivity.

Silicon crystal in the beginning of the growth process

Insight Media market research divided the leading players in this application into micro-display makers, e. g., TI's DLP, Himax, Micron / Displaytech and Syndiant LCoS, Maradin, Microvision, Lemoptix and bTendo MEMS scanners ); light source makers, e. g., Lumileds, Osram, Cree LEDs and Corning, Nichia, Mitsubishi Lasers ; and module makers, e. g., Jabil / Sypro Digital Light Processing ( DLP ) with LED, 3M Liquid crystal on Silicon ( LCoS ) with LED, Explay LCoS with laser.

Chalcedony's standard chemical structure ( based on the chemical structure of quartz ) is SiO < sub > 2 </ sub > ( Silicon Dioxide ).

The Segway Human Transporter employs a vibrating structure gyroscope made by Silicon Sensing Systems to maintain stability of the operator platform.

Silicon is an alternative to lead ; however, when silicon is used in a brass alloy, the scrap must never be mixed with leaded brass scrap because of contamination and safety problems.

In the 1970s the fundamental inventions by Federico Faggin ( Silicon Gate MOS ICs with self aligned gates along with his new random logic design methodology ) changed the design and implementation of CPUs forever.

Silicon Valley is known to be one of the world's most targeted areas for espionage, though any industry with information of use to competitors may be a target.

* Interview with William Mensch Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project, October 9, 1995.

He is also credited ( along with Jack Kilby ) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.

However, with the rapid growth of technology jobs in the San Francisco Metropolitan area, the traditional boundaries of Silicon Valley have expanded North to include the rest of San Mateo County, San Francisco County as well as parts of Marin County.

Thus, regionalism helped align Stanford's interests with those of the area's high-tech firms for the first fifty years of Silicon Valley's development.

He is credited with nurturing Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and other high-tech firms, until what would become Silicon Valley grew up around the Stanford campus.

Silicon ( or ), tetravalent metalloid, is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14.

Silicon is a solid at room temperature, with relatively high melting and boiling points of approximately 1, 400 and 2, 800 degrees Celsius respectively.

On April 1, 2009, SGI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced that it would sell substantially all of its assets to Rackable Systems, a deal finalized on May 11, 2009, with Rackable assuming the name " Silicon Graphics International ".

Silicon Graphics logo with distinctive 3-D box " bug "

In 2010, GPHI announced it had won a significant favorable ruling in its litigation with ATI Technologies and AMD in June 2010, following the patent lawsuit originally filed during the Silicon Graphics, Inc. era.

The first clickable web ad ( which later came to be known by the term " banner ad ") was sold by Global Network Navigator ( GNN ) in 1993 to Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe, a now defunct law firm with a Silicon Valley office.

Silicon Graphics started developing XFS in 1993, with first deployment on IRIX 5. 3 in 1994.

Silicon atoms are in tetrahedral coordination with oxygen, as in almost all silicate minerals, but in melts atomic order is preserved only over short distances.

Silicon carbide ( SiC ) has found some application as the raw material for blue light-emitting diodes ( LEDs ) and is being investigated for use in semiconductor devices that could withstand very high operating temperatures and environments with the presence of significant levels of ionizing radiation.

Marc Andreessen, the leader of the team that developed Mosaic, left NCSA and, with James H. Clark, one of the founders of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ), and four other former students and staff of the University of Illinois, started Mosaic Communications Corporation.

The lead-in clue (" In 1977, this Silicon Valley garage startup sold its computers for $ 666. 66 ") uniquely identifies the desired answer, but is obscure enough so that those with deeper knowledge can answer earlier.

* 1954 – Silicon solar cells with 6 % efficiency made at Bell Laboratories