Richard Smalley

If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

American Scientist

Bill Gates

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

American Businessman

Masayoshi Son

People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.

Japanese Businessman

Ralph Merkle

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

Tatiana Schlossberg

Computers and cellphones - which require semiconductors and microchips to work - have become so essential to life all over the world that it's easy to ignore the problems with building them.

Henry Samueli

The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice.

Jack Kilby

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

Antonio Perez

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

Spanish Statesman

Lisa Su

I've spent my entire career in semiconductors.

Taiwanese Businesswoman

Louis Navellier

Semiconductors control the flow of electricity, acting like a switch between conductors and insulators.

Electricity Flow

Semiconductors are critical in technology, powering everything from phones to computers.

Tech Essential

While there are many materials, silicon is the most widely used semiconductor in technology.

Silicon Popularity

When talking about companies, 'semiconductor' implies a specialization in electronic components, not general electronics.

Industry Specific

Semiconductor companies are considered high-tech and are a key part of the technology sector.

High-tech Sector

In business news, 'semiconductor' can also refer to the stocks or financial performance of such companies.

Stock Market

 and software got in there that causes the centrifuges, in that case, to actually destroy themselves. Now that same kind of software could destroy an oil refinery or a pharmaceutical factory or a semiconductor plant. And so there's a lot of -- I'm sure you've read a lot in papers, about worries about cyberattacks

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 Solar panels are made up of smaller units called solar cells. The most common solar cells are made from silicon, a semiconductor that is the second most abundant element on Earth. In a solar cell, crystalline silicon is sandwiched between conductive layers.

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