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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. It was nearly twice as fast as existing memory products by competitors including Fairchild and the Electrotechnical Laboratory of Tsukuba, Japan. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. There were additional VIC-20 assembly facilities in Japan, where the disk drive for the C-64 was to be manufactured.

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GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. Got a hot tip on breaking green news, or a suggestion for areas of coverage? Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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