Not quite a year ago, the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry. This account of the shuttle's last half hour is tough reading, but worth the effort.

You know how they say you can never have too much memory? It's really true. NASA scientists suspect the Spirit rover ran out of storage space.

Intel is starting to put its money where its mouth is, with major EUV investments. There are a lot of challenges, but Intel has a lot of money to throw at the problem. This is getting interesting.

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iSuppli principal analyst Len Jelinek is the latest in a long line of forecasters who predicted the end of capital spending cycles. All those other guys were wrong, and I suspect Jelinek is, too. The fundamental cause of cycles, the lag time between capital investment and wafer output, rears its ugly head every time the lead time for equipment purchases jumps. See the slightly dated discussion of chip market dynamics on Thin Film Wiki for further discussion.

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