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Wikileaks building: A marvel of architecture
December 14th, 2010 / 5 Comments » / by AF8AB
Pionen – White Mountain designed by Albert France-Lanord Architects is housed in a former 1,200 sq. meter Cold War bunker (originally built as a World War II bunker); an amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm. The Pionen – White Mountain facilities, a Bahnhof computer center, hosts Wikileaks servers at these facilities and provides power, cooling, and Internet access to the servers.
One of the original founders of WikiLeaks is architect John Young.
From Sand To Silicon: How A Intel CPU Is Built
August 2nd, 2009 / 16 Comments » / by AF8AB
Intel takes us on a journey of Sand into our daily PC’s. Here you can catch a glimpse of some of the amazingly sophisticated work going on daily inside Intel’s cutting-edge silicon manufacturing fabs.
1. Sand
Made up of 25 percent silicon, is, after oxygen, the second most abundant chemical element that’s in the earth’s crust. Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing.
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