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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S100 who wrote (2460)	12/29/2000 3:11:56 PM
From: S100	Respond to of 12231

Lots of good tech stuff here, including QCOM, DDR, VIA, TSMC, Wireless stuff via.com.tw PDF files, most are rather large.

To: S100 who wrote (2460)	12/29/2000 4:42:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

* The New Paradigm * roars ahead, accelerating into the 21st century. <Toshiba said it will contribute its lead zirconate titanate (PZT) process technology, a patented "chained" cell structure, the company's 1T1C (1 transistor 1 capacitor) cell structure, and know-how from development of its 8-Mbit FeRAM. Munich-based Infineon said it will contribute expertise in enhancing the number of read and write cycles and in resolving metal contamination of silicon. Compared to a NOR-based flash memory, FeRAM chips have a faster read access time--similar to SRAMs--and program response times. Unlike standard SRAMs, data is retained in FeRAMs when system power is off. Toshiba and Infineon said the attributes of the ferroelectric RAM makes the device well-suited for a range of applications, such as video game consoles, cell phones, wireless communication devices and IC cards. The initial 32-Mbit FeRAM developed by Infineon and Toshiba is expected to replace multi-chip package modules in cellular phones that consist of SRAM and a NOR-based flash memory. > This sort of item, of which there are thousands and thousands in all spheres of inventiveness, continues to amaze me. I am still mentally stuck in the mid 20th century. I am sort of waiting for everything to slow down as though what I am used to is some sort of platform on which to live, even though I know it is accelerating and there is no platform and the technological world is just gathering speed and I am all in favour of that process, confusing though it might be. Ted Kaczynski rpi.edu cs.umass.edu will develop a following as more people get to understand the implications and they realize they are NOT the primary beneficiaries of what's happening. I suspect Michael McDermott dailynews.yahoo.com is symptomatic of the confluence of The State, which is an increasingly overbearing monster dictating every aspect of our lives, the Internet which is coming into competition with The State, and the Individual, who is coming into increasing conflict with both The State and The Internet although being the primary beneficiary of both. He is seen as just another nutter. I think there's more to it. A common theme of these 'nutcase' mass murderers seems to be a fight back against restriction of individuals by Big Brother. Yes, I know that's a bit simplistic, because it's an infinitely complex world with a lot more than 3 competing entities [there are mosquitoes for example, which like a piece of the action, not to mention my blood supply]. But it's a pretty good generalisation for dominant effects on our lives. Anyway, back to the technoworld. There are now 5 billion people who have left or are leaving the wheat fields, the rice paddies and the material world of survival which has surrounded people for thousands of years, only easing since the advent of the industrial revolution. There are millions and millions of really smart people who can figure out stuff like this 32 megabit FeRAM for cellphones. Because marginal production costs for these new things are so low or zero in the case of software and there are so many of us, the value of developments is vast. In weeks, 5 billion people can benefit from the creative ingenuity of a single person. 100 years ago, there were only 1 billion people and they were nearly all messing around on farms. If smart ones were doing something creative, it was not of much benefit to the rest of humanity or cost a lot to produce an item [such as a new buggy-wheel rim or maybe a new steam valve] and the value of that new item wasn't that huge. 100 years ago, there were maybe 1 million really talented people who were doing something creative. Now there are 100 million of them and they are doing things which are not only highly creative, but cost little to produce and lead to even greater inventions and provide value to 5 billion people almost overnight. Not only that, we are now harnessing the thinking power of computers to do the heavy lifting, just as the industrial revolution harnessed the steam engine to do heavy lifting in a mechanical sense. Just as the steam engine propelled people into the 20th century and the spectacle of the 20th century is testament to the significance of the process, the computer world is propelling us headlong into the 21st century but at a much, much greater rate than the genteel pace of the end of the 19th century, though of course people then would have felt just as challenged as we do now and just as much in a rush to get the damn hay in before it rained, which they'd have done if the horse hadn't thrown the stupid new-fangled shoe. It's weird, but being in the midst of it, the pace seems normal. Maybe that's what it seems like when accelerating beyond the event horizon into a black hole. Maybe we have entered a Calabi-Yau space in an abstract world leading to some strange new zone. th.physik.uni-bonn.de Scroll down and click for 'turning a sphere inside out'. Anyway, the continuing torrent of technology continues unabated. It's good for QUALCOMM and Globalstar so I want to see a LOT more of it. Over the next century, the pace should accelerate because our jungle-based, evolutionarily-derived brain capacities and functionality are likely to get a quantum boost to make the steam engine boost to our similarly poorly-evolved musculature look a joke. Hold on to your hats! It's going to be a fast ride with lots of ups and downs and thrills and spills. SAWS got a whiff of it the other day. GSM is toast. Our common, garden-variety DNA is probably not long for this world. CDNA[TM] and CDMA [and a lot more besides] will change what it means to be human. All aboard!! Hang on tightly. Mqurice PS: CDNA = cyber deoxyribonucleic acid = genetic engineering, including us. britannica.com