Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium uses a catalytic process to convert carbohydrates into furanics building blocks. Over the past years we have made tremendous progress to develop a low-cost production process to convert biomass into YXY building blocks. Click to enlarge. The YXY products can also be used in a wide range of applications.

Building 186

Building Netherlands Convert 2000 186

Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

Design 105

Design Engine Standards San Francisco 105

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I The hard work came to fruition in Flight Simulator 2000 , which reached a technical milestone: It mapped the entire planet in 1-kilometer blocks. It didn’t depict real airspace or modern airplanes. The Blackshark.ai

Building 141

Building Seattle 2000 Peru 141

Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Somebody like Burrell Smith would design a computer on paper and people would say.

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Design Engine Parts Personal 118

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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IDEA 2000 Design Engine 120