Sales were helped by strong demand from companies that tap TSMC to produce semiconductors used in mobile phones, competitiveness in 28-nanometer width manufacturing processes and favorable exchange rates, CFO Lora Ho said in a statement.
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If he is right, that could mean an Israeli strip of land, 20-30km in width, running west of the Jordan river, the Palestinians' main gateway to the Arab world.
"He was greatly satisfied to learn that soldier-builders have constructed a skiing area on mountain ranges covering hundreds of thousands of square meters, including primary, intermediate and advanced courses with almost 110, 000 meters (68.3 miles) in total length and 40-120 meters (131-394 feet) in width, " said the KCNA report.
Through a few hardware changes, Samsung compressed the device, which was first introduced at the Mobile World Congress trade show in mid-February, to a width of 8.6 millimeters.
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Nereus, on the other hand, uses rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, similar to those used in laptop computers, for power and a single hairs-width fibre optic cables - borrowed from Torpedoes - for control and telemetry.
Wizards at Lucent and Nortel can zap--in one second--6 trillion bits of information down a fiber strand the width of a human hair.
The upper deck is home to 32 business class seats in a 2-2 configuration -- the width of the area is roughly the same as the interior of the 737-700.
In one study, experimenters measured the facial width-to-height ratio of 192 Masters of Business Administration students, 115 of whom were men.
Notably, the line features the introduction of several industry-leading performance features, including the world's first Audyssey DSX with front height or expanded width channels in the receiver category (AVR-4310CI) and Dolby Pro Logic IIz decoding in all models.
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All of the specimens measured a thread-like 0.57mm (0.02in) in width.
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The cars can vary in width by 5 centimeters and in length by 15 centimeters--the larger size to be used for a wagon version of the Malibu.
The cars can vary in width by 2 inches and in length by 6 inches--the larger size to be used for a wagon version of the Malibu.
The sand will be severely shaken and sieved to make sure only fine-grained material, less than the width of a human hair in diameter, reaches the instruments.
New York's 432 Park Avenue, potentially the city's tallest residential building when completed in 2016, may also be one of the city's skinniest, with a width-to-height ratio that could require more complicated dampening techniques.
And, given that it's just slightly more compact width-wise than the GNote II, the G Pro actually feels better in the hand and doesn't confer a sense of instability or slipperiness so often encountered with Samsung's same-sized smartphone.
"In the lab we have been able to show healing of cracks with a width of 0.5mm - two to three times higher than the norms state, " Dr Jonkers explained.
Over in print media, Janet Robinson , chief executive of The New York Times Co. (nyse: NYT - news - people ), plans to shrink the width of its flagship paper and cut 250 jobs in the face of a dismal profit picture.
In the mid-1980s the smallest features on chips were 1 or 2 microns wide, about one-hundredth the width of a human hair.
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