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81Silicon Forest — (Deutsch etwa: „Silizium Wald“; analog gewählt zu Silicon Valley) ist der Spitzname für eine Region im Nordwesten Oregons und Südwesten Washingtons, in der sich besonders in den 1980ern und 1990ern zahlreiche Technologieunternehmen niederließen.… …
82silicon carbide — n a very hard dark crystalline compound SiC of silicon and carbon that is used as an abrasive in dentistry * * * a compound produced by the reaction of silicon and carbon at extremely high temperature; it ranks next to diamond in hardness and is… …
83silicon chip — ➔ chip * * * silicon chip UK US noun [C] IT ► CHIP(Cf. ↑chip) …
84silicon wafer — UK US noun [C] IT ► a very thin piece of silicon used in computers: »The smaller the transistors, the more chips that fit on a silicon wafer …
85Silicon Valley — Silicon Val|ley a part of California in the area between San Francisco and San José, which is a centre of the computer industry. Many important inventions were made in this area, and many large and small companies producing computer ↑software and …
86silicon chip — silicon chips N COUNT A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations. Syn: microchip …
87Silicon Dreams Studios — Ltd. was a British software house established in 1994 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, who specialized in sports games, distributed in most part by Eidos.Their first major title was the 32 bit/PC edition of the official video game of the 1996 Summer… …
88Silicon Grail — was once a company developing compositing software for filmmakers and post production professionals. Its main products were Chalice and RAYZ, both high end compositing applications. The company was acquired by Apple in 2002 [… …
89Silicon Integration Initiative — (Si2) is a non profit consortium of industry leading semiconductor, systems, EDA, and manufacturing companies, focused on improving the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured in order to speed time to market, reduce costs, and meet …
90Silicon Glen — a humorous name for an area of central Scotland where there are many companies producing computer products. Its name is based on Silicon Valley, because glen is a Scottish word for a valley …
