NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation - Early development. Nippon Electric Limited Partnership was established in August 31, 1898 by Kunihiko Iwadare and Takeshiro Maeda using facilities that they had bought from Miyoshi Electrical Manufacturing Company. Iwadare was the representative partner. Maeda handled company sales. Western Electric, who had an interest in the Japanese phone market was represented by Walter Tenney Carleton. Carleton was also responsible for the renovation of the Miyoshi facilities. It was agreed that the ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1899 - Events. January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. ...

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x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. The x86 architecture currently dominates the desktop computer, portable computer, and small server markets. The architecture is called x86 because the earliest processors in this family were identified by model numbers ending in the sequence "86": the 8086, the 80186, the 80286, the 386, and the 486. Because one cannot trademark numbers, Intel and most ...

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Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical calculations. "Computing" has come to mean the operation and usage of computing machines, the electrical processes carried out within the computing hardware itself, and the theoretical concepts governing them (computer science). The following definition of computing is gi ...

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Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules with novel properties that make them potentially useful in a wide variety of applications (e.g., nano-electronics, optics, materials applications, etc.). They exhibit extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties, and are efficient conductors of heat. Inorganic nanotubes have also been synthesized. A nanotube (also known as a buckytube) is a member of the fullerene structural family, which also includes buckyballs. Whereas buckyballs are spherical in shape, a nanotube ...

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Western Electric (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was a US electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995 . It was the scene of a number of technological innovations and also some seminal developments in industrial management. It also served as the purchasing agent for the member companies of the Bell system. In 1856, George Shawk, purchased an electrical engineering business in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1869, he became partners with Enos N. Barton and, later the same year, sold h ...

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An integrated circuit (IC) or often referred to as a microchip or simply chip is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) which has been manufactured on a thin substrate of semiconductor material. Integrated circuit - Introduction. The integrated circuit was made possible by experimental discoveries which showed that semiconductor devices could perform the functions of vacuum tubes and by mid-20th-century technology advanceme ...

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Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921-April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. His mother, Helen Mason, was from Canada and his father, Arthur Schawlow, was an immigrant from Latvia. When Arthur was three years old, they moved to Toronto, Canada. At the age of 16 he completed high school and received a scholarship in science at the University of Toronto. After earning his undergraduate degree Schawlow continued in graduate school at the University of Toronto which was interrupted due to World War II. At the end of the war he b ...

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The word "Orb", from the Latin orbis 'circle', is another name for a round object, especially a disk or a sphere. The term may also refer to one of the following. The Orb in the "Orb and Sceptre" is a type of regalia known as a globus cruciger (Latin: orb cross). The Sovereign's Orb (a globus cruciger) is one of the best known Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. The Orb River empties into the Golfe du Lion in southern France. The Orb is a British band. O ...

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Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a next-generation optical disc format meant for storage of high-definition video and high-density data. The Blu-ray standard was jointly developed by a group of consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). As compared to the HD DVD format, its main competitor, Blu-ray has more information capacity per layer, 25 instead of 15 gigabyt ...

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• Blu-ray Disc - Corporate support
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• Blu-ray Disc - Alternatives
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Supercomputers traditionally gained their speed over conventional computers through the use of innovative designs that allow them to perform many tasks in parallel, as well as complex detail engineering. They tend to be specialized for certain types of computation, usually numerical calculations, and perform poorly at more general computing tasks. Their memory hierarchy is very carefully designed to ensure the processor is kept fed with data and instructions at all times—in fact, much of the performance difference between slower computers ...

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Integrated circuit - Fabrication. Main article: Semiconductor fabrication. The semiconductors of the periodic table of the chemical elements were identified as the most likely materials for a solid state vacuum tube by researchers like William Shockley at Bell Laboratories starting in the 1930s. Starting with copper oxide, proceeding to germanium, then silicon, the materials were systematically studied in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, silicon monocrystals are the main substrate used for inte ...

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1899 - January. January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. January 21 - Opel Motors opens for business. January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation. January 24 - Rubber heel patente ...

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See information processor for a high-level block diagram. Computer hardware Computer Hardware Design Computer network Computer system History of computing hardware Computing - Instruction-level taxonomies. After the commoditization of memory, attention turned to optimizing CPU performance at the instruction level. Various methods of speeding up the fetch-execute cycle include: designing instruction set architectures with simpler, faster i ...

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The strength and flexibility of carbon nanotubes makes them of potential use in controlling other nanoscale structures, which suggests they will have an important role in nanotechnology engineering. The highest tensile strength an individual SWNT has been tested to be is 63 GPa [4]. In Earth's upper atmosphere, atomic oxygen erodes the carbon nanotubes, but other applications of carbon nanotubes rarely need the surface to be protected. Though it is debatable if nanotube materials can ever be made with a tensile strength approaching that of i ...

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List of AMD microprocessors - 2nd source 1979–91. (second-sourced x86 processors produced under contract with Intel) 8086 8088 Am286 (2nd-sourced 80286, so not a proper Amx86 member) List of AMD microprocessors - Amx86 series 1991–95. Am386 (1991) Am486 (1993) Am5x86 (a 486-class µP) (1995) List of AMD microprocessors - ...

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The strength and flexibility of carbon nanotubes makes them of potential use in controlling other nanoscale structures, which suggests they will have an important role in nanotechnology engineering. The highest tensile strength an individual SWNT has been tested to be is 63 GPa [4]. In Earth's upper atmosphere, atomic oxygen erodes the carbon nanotubes, but other applications of carbon nanotubes rarely need the surface to be protected. Though it is debatable if nanotube materials can ever be made with a tensile strength approaching that of i ...

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Carbon nanotube, Carbon nanotube - Single-walled nanotubes, Carbon nanotube - Properties, Carbon nanotube - Synthesis, Carbon nanotube - Applications, Carbon nanotube - Carbon nanotube fiber & film, Carbon nanotube - Current progress, Carbon nanotube - Carbon nanotubes in electrical circuits

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Blu-ray Disc - Laser and optics. Blu-ray systems use blue-violet laser operating at a wavelength of 405 nm to read and write data. Conventional DVDs and CDs use red and infrared lasers at 650 nm and 780 nm respectively. The blue-violet laser's shorter wavelength makes it possible to store more information on a 12 cm CD/DVD sized disc. The minimum "spot size" on which a laser can be focused is limited by diffraction, and depends on the wavelength of the light and the numerical aperture of the lens used to f ...

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"WirelessUSB™" by Cypress Semiconductor is not related to IEEE's "Certified Wireless USB". Cypress's "WirelessUSB™" is a protocol that uses the 2.4 GHz ISM band with a range from 10 to 50 meters and is designed for Human Interface Devices (HIDs), with current offerings from companies such as Belkin, Logitech, and Virtual Ink. Other forms of Wireless USB such as those to be offered on the competing UWB technology based on Freescale pulse method are also not approved by the USB Sig or the IEEE. The same is also true for other ...

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The x86 architecture is a CISC design with variable instruction length. Word sized memory access is allowed to unaligned memory addresses. Words are stored in the little-endian order. Backwards compatibility has always been a driving force behind the development of the x86 architecture (the design decisions this has required are often criticised, particularly by proponents of competing processors, who are frustrated by the continued success of an architecture widely perceived as quantifiably inferior). Modern x86 processors translate the x86 instruction set to more RISC-like micro-instructions (or micro-ops) upon which modern micro-architectu ...

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X86, X86 - History, X86 - Design, X86 - Real mode, X86 - 16-bit protected mode, X86 - 32-bit protected mode, X86 - MMX and beyond, X86 - 3DNow!, X86 - SSE, X86 - SSE2, X86 - SSE3, X86 - 64-bit, X86 - Virtualization, X86 - Manufacturers

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