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semiconductors

23 notes carry this tag — 2 mocs, 10 claims, 1 observation, 3 questions, 5 captures, 2 essays. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  nobody gets past abbe
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · optics, euv, semiconductors, supply-chain, history-of-science
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  The panic that fed what it feared
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · cfius, exon-florio, darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation

Everything else

• The late-1980s US 'Japan panic' — one anxiety, two policy branches, one bloodline
  topic map 2026-09-02 · cfius, exon-florio, darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation
• A shared slogan is not a shared model — the Red Queen's 'run to stay in place' travelled from Van Valen's biology into organizational theory and semiconductor economics, but only one import carried the constant-hazard formalism; the rest carried only Carroll's image
  topic map 2026-08-25 · red-queen, van-valen, cross-domain-metaphor, metaphor-vs-formalism, organizational-theory
• Verify the Ni1000 defense-funding figures ($1.2M DARPA, $400,000 ONR) against a primary contract or filing
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-23 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, onr, defense-funding
• Nestor's 1990 DARPA neural-chip development contract was increased to ~$1,630,000 in April 1992, with Intel subcontracted for fabrication at up to $1,050,000
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, defense-funding, sec-filing
• Nestor's August 1993 ONR-funded, ARPA-administered contract for the Ni1000's PC-compatible development board totaled $776,167 — not the $400,000 trade press reported
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, onr, defense-funding
• ICLE grounds its 'competition for the market' framework in industrial-organization economics — Schumpeter, dynamic capabilities, Evans & Schmalensee — not evolutionary biology
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-25 · semiconductors, competition-for-the-market, industrial-organization, schumpeter, dynamic-capabilities
• The ICLE 'Moore's Law' white paper invokes the Red Queen only as Lewis Carroll's literary image, not as Van Valen's biological formalism
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · semiconductors, red-queen, van-valen, competition-for-the-market, rocks-law
• No located source performs a formal (statistical) test mapping semiconductor node-race competition onto Van Valen's constant-hazard extinction model
  observation seedling Tier 1 for the ICLE direct read; the negative literature-search component carries no numeric tier 2026-07-25 · semiconductors, red-queen, van-valen, rocks-law, cross-domain-bridge
• Fujitsu's bid for 80 percent of Fairchild Semiconductor exposed that pre-1988 CFIUS was merely advisory, forcing its review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act instead of a national-security veto
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-18 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, cold-war, japan-panic
• Graham & Marchick (2006) independently corroborate the Fujitsu–Fairchild bid, not Toshiba-Kongsberg, as the trigger for the Exon-Florio Amendment
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-18 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, cold-war, japan-panic
• Does ICLE's 'competition for the market' (node-by-node semiconductor races) map formally onto Van Valen's constant-extinction-probability, or only metaphorically?
  capture promoted 2026-07-15 · semiconductors, red-queen, van-valen, competition-for-the-market, rocks-law
• Find a second independent account confirming the Fujitsu–Fairchild bid drove the Exon-Florio Amendment
  capture promoted 2026-07-15 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, cold-war, japan-panic
• Intel, which fabricated the DARPA-funded Ni1000 neural chip, was founded in 1968 by Fairchild defectors — making the firm whose attempted foreign takeover prompted Exon-Florio the corporate parent of the chip's maker
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · intel, fairchild, semiconductors, nestor, ni1000
• Trade press reported Nestor's Ni1000 chip was funded with $1.2M from DARPA and $400,000 from ONR — contradicted by Nestor's own SEC filings, which record $1,630,000 and $776,167 for two distinct contracts
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-12 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, onr, neural-networks
• Verify the Ni1000 defense-funding figures ($1.2M DARPA, $400,000 ONR) against a primary contract or filing
  question answered 2026-07-12 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, onr, defense-funding
• The late-1980s US 'Japan panic' is the real bridge between Exon-Florio and Nestor's neural chips — one anxiety, two branches, and a Fairchild-to-Intel genealogy that touches both
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · cfius, exon-florio, ai-winter, neural-networks, darpa
• Rock's Law is Moore's Law's economic inverse: as chips get denser, the cost of building the fabs to make them rises exponentially
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · compute-economics, semiconductors, rocks-law, moores-law, capital-intensity
• Does ICLE's 'competition for the market' (node-by-node semiconductor races) map formally onto Van Valen's constant-extinction-probability, or only metaphorically?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · compute-economics, semiconductors, rocks-law, red-queen, cross-domain-bridge
• Rock's Law forces chipmakers into a Red Queen race — the same evolutionary dynamic Barnett found inside the computer-manufacturing industry itself
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, compute-economics, semiconductors, rocks-law, red-queen
• The Congressional Research Service credits the Exon-Florio Amendment (CFIUS's investment veto) to the 1987 Fujitsu–Fairchild bid, not the Toshiba-Kongsberg submarine scandal
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-09 · cfius, exon-florio, cold-war, export-controls, science-policy
• Find a second independent account confirming the Fujitsu–Fairchild bid drove the Exon-Florio Amendment
  question open 2026-07-09 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, verification, myth-ledger-candidate