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reverseengineer writes:
According to a Reuters story, AMD has announced it will spin off its manufacturing facilities into a separate firm with the temporary name of the Foundry Company. Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), a state-owned venture capital company, will hold half the board seats and own 55 percent of the new company, with AMD holding the balance. AMD will continue to use the new company's fabs- as a customer. As the story notes, 'AMD has always struggled against its bigger competitor and in the last few years was forced to weigh the price of its pride in owning the fabricating plants, or 'fabs,' which most other chip makers gave up long ago.'
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reverseengineer writes:
Eminent physicist John Archibald Wheeler has died from pneumonia at the age of 96. The coiner of the terms "black hole" and "wormhole," Wheeler popularized the study of general relativity, and advised a distinguished list of graduate students including Kip Thorne and Richard Feynman. Other work included a collaboration with Niels Bohr to develop the "liquid drop" model of nuclear fission. Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said of Dr. Wheeler, "For me, he was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing."
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reverseengineer writes:
Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his characterization of the proteins associated with transcription (writing the information of DNA to RNA) in eukaryotes. Roger Kornberg is the son of 1959 Medicine Nobel winner Arthur Kornberg. This makes two prizes this year given for research associated with RNA.
