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  • n  a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

  • The search for a successor to silicon has become a kind of crusade; it is the Holy Grail of computation.
  • From the viewpoint of bioengineering, a silicon chip is a large and rather complex shard of glass.
  • What's more, silicon (as in sand) is abundant and harmless.
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  • John Simpson in BBC News
    There are much stronger privacy laws in Europe than here, where privacy is viewed as a consumer protection issue as opposed to a fundamental human right,the group's John Simpson told BBC News. "We see that a number of Silicon Valley...
  • Mark Dean in Forbes
    What we're discovering with spintronics, compared with GMR,said Mark Dean, director of IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., "is like comparing silicon to the vacuum tube."
  • Barack Obama in Washington Post
    Speaking of Medvedev, Obama said: "And during his visit to Silicon Valley this week, he visited the headquarters of Twitters, where he opened his own account. I have one as well, so we may be able to finally throw away those 'red phones' that have...

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