The company did not announce specific products or customers today but said computer makers in the United States and Japan were planning to build computers based on the technology.
Not only has the chip giant co-opted one of its fiercest competitors by allying with Hewlett-Packard, but Silicon Graphics has said that it plans to build computers based on Merced, raising questions about the future of its MIPS microprocessors in the supercomputer and work station markets.
Photographs of every possible angle of the area were shot with a high-resolution digital camera, allowing the effects crew to build computer-based geometric models of homes that were then textured with period facades.
The projects that won awards include explorations in technologies needed to build a computer based on quantum physics principles, the development of new scientific tools for ecologists working at universities in the Southwest and Midwest, and a modular computer tied together by fiber optics that will stretch from the University of California at San Diego to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Four months after the Baby first worked, the British government contracted the electronics firm of Ferranti to build a production computer based on the prospective Mark I.
Gene M. Amdahl, the designer of I.B.M.'s 360 mainframe computer, founded Trilogy Systems in 1980 to build an advanced mainframe computer based on wafer-scale technology.
If so, he was a great artist in the sense that Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol are great artists: hugely talented jackdaws who took other people's half-baked innovations and converted them into beautiful products with mass appeal.* Apple didn't build the first desktop computer based on a microprocessor: the Micral N and the MITS Altair predated the landmark Apple II.
A proposal to build a fully scalable quantum computer based on diamond material will be discussed.
As smartphones and tablets took off, Google decided to build an "operating system free" computer based around the Chrome browser – the first official Chromebook launched in mid-2011.
One company that has already built a version of a tiny personal computer based around the Microdrive is Tiqit Computers, a Palo Alto, Calif., company started by Vaughan Pratt, a Stanford computer scientist.
The building has not been built; the analysis of its strength and safety is all computer based.
