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To: carl a. mehr who wrote (67497)	10/28/1998 8:31:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Carl, Oh Boy! Leave it to the US Government to show the way for "U.S. manufacturers to produce computer chips in a new way". The list of technological innovations out of the US National Laboratories is mind boggling, including many innovations in the semiconductor industry. I have worked at several National Labs (Sandia and Los Alamos) as well as numerous computer and semiconductor companies. You would be very surprised to find out how closely tied Intel is to the National Laboratory system. One of the main reasons that the Intel Rio Rancho fab is located there is because of proximity to the two largest National Laboratories. Intel has benefited greatly from these relationships. For example: 1997 The world's fastest computer, the massively parallel teraflops machine, becomes fully operational at Sandia. The teraflops (which stands for one trillion floating point operations per second) has nearly 600 billion bytes of memory and is capable of performing up to 1.8 teraflops. Although used in various ways, this "ultracomputer" was built to help develop the higher-resolution, three-dimensional physics modeling needed to evaluate the aging nuclear weapon stockpile without actual full-scale nuclear testing. You might want to browse these sites for your own enlightenment: sandia.gov lanl.gov llnl.gov Scumbria

To: carl a. mehr who wrote (67497)	10/29/1998 2:10:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 186894

RE: Chip breakthrough Carl, you've got to learn to read your assignments through to the end, especially if you are going to post them and sneer at them. Had you done so, or had you remembered the stories of the past much quoted on this thread, you would recognize this as the first fruits of Intel's multihundredmillion dollar investment in exactly this problem -(the other Sematech firms, I understand, are in for peanuts).

To: carl a. mehr who wrote (67497)	10/29/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Hi Carl, Re: "Oh Boy! Leave it to the US Government to show the way for "U.S. manufacturers to produce computer chips in a new way". My, my! What will we hear next?" Well, next hear that the government can take credit for the origin of the internet. From my Local Area Networks book by James Martin: "TCP/IP, short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is named after the two major protocols included in the protocol suite that grew out of a research project that began in 1969 and was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense..../snip\...The TCP/IP protocols allow the individual interconnected networks to give the appearance of a single, unified network-called an internet-.../snip\... How 'BOUT that gummint? Tony