When you study the history of technology, it is irritating to hear pin heads claim microprocessors came from alien spacecrafts. I find it insulting to assume that a technology was stolen just because the technology is inconceivable to the ill informed.

Did we steal this from aliens too:

Intel Corporation today announced a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of modern electronics. For the first time since the invention of silicon transistors over 50 years ago, transistors using a three-dimensional structure will be put into high-volume manufacturing. Intel will introduce a revolutionary 3-D transistor design called Tri-Gate, first disclosed by Intel in 2002, into high-volume manufacturing at the 22-nanometer (nm) node in an Intel chip codenamed “Ivy Bridge.” A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.

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The march to better technology continues.

This country has fostered individual achievement that has advancement beyond our wildest dreams.  But instead of giving credit where it is due, some would rather assume we stole the technology from aliens and horded for our own benefit.

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