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Now known as Credit Suisse, the last time the name Swiss Credit Bank was used was in 1976. According to the bank's website, the stylised blue cross logo was in use between 1968 and 1976, so it suggests this 20-gram gold wafer dates from that period (see next photo).
www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/our-company/who-we-are/...
Money is complicated. It's a source of desire, motivation, aspiration, greed, conflicts and evil. It's a token of love yet it causes jealousy and turns family, friends, people and countries against each other.
Gold is the only ultimate hard currency that is truly recognized anywhere in the world as storage of value and purchasing power.
At times of wars and uncertainties, gold over the course of history has proved to be the only "currency" that keeps its purchasing power and is accepted anywhere in the world. History is full of tales of refugees giving up their gold to buy safe passage.
Gold is dense... a 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm (1 cm³) pure gold cube weighs 19.32 grams. A 1m x 1m x 1m ( 1m³ or 3.28 ft x 3.28 ft x 3.28 ft) gold cube would weigh 19,320 kg or 42,593 lbs!
Unfortunately, gold-mining is very polluting and damaging to the environment. Yet, gold is very rare and precious. It's estimated that all the gold ever minded in history can fill just over 3 Olympic-sized swimming pool.
A wafer is a slice of a huge silicon monocristal on which integrated circuits manufacturers engrave microelectronic circuits using the photo-lithography process.
Nowadays, ultraviolet lasers allows us to engrave those circuits with nanometric precision, fitting several billions of transistors on a single penny-sized portion of silicon.
This close-up photo has been taken with a glass window between the subject and the camera. The ambient light reflects in the window, hence that “light ball”.
The “fish-eye” comes from the lenses I use.
(no after-effects here)
Just a few years ago the 9inch wafer was hot shiite. Now we're trying to make the 12 inch platter profitable.
My favorite Holiday cookie. Simple and easy to make, and man are they delicious!
Cookie Wafer
1 cup softened butter or margarine
1/3 cup whipping cream
2 cups flour
granulated sugar for coating wafers
Mix the butter, whipping cream and flour together until you get a smooth consistency. Place in a bowl and cover, and store in the fridge for at least 1 hour. This can be left overnight in the fridge if you need too.
Filling
1/2 softened butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp vanilla
Mix the filling until smooth, then divide in half. Color one half red and the other green.
Bake
Heat the oven to 375℉. Roll out 1/3 of the dough at a time, until it is 1/8" thick. Try not to re-roll the dough more than twice. Cut wafers with 1 1/2" round cookie cutter. Coat each side with the granulated sugar. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and make sure to puncture the cookies with a fork before baking. I made three rows of four holes. Bake for 7 - 9 minutes, but I would stay closer to 7. Since there is no egg in this recipe you can under cook them and it will be fine. Transfer to a cooling rack when done. Make sure they are completely cooled before filling.
Miniature chocolate & vanilla wafer biscuits. Obviously I only bought the packet of them for the photo, but will now have to eat them ;-))
Return visit to our friend's Wafer Creek Ranch in Ruston, Louisiana. June 5-10, 2019
Photo by Debbie
A close up die photo of the processor codenamed 'Dunnington'.
Dunnington is socket-compatible with the Intel's 7300 chipset based Caneland platform and will be available in the second half of 2008. Dunnington is the first IA (Intel Architecture) processor with 6-cores, is based on the 45nm high-K process technology, and has large shared caches.
A crispy wafer-like cylinder filled with powdery delight...
I already threw away the packet that describes what this is made of: My guess is peanuts, flour and buttermilk(?)
A stacked image of a wafer full of CPU die's (I believe they are IBM CPU die's). Reversed 24mm on D300.
Артек плюс, made by "Красный Октябрь", "Red October"
Certainly the political affiliation of this company is obvious, those Siloviks.
This funny-looking thing our guide is touching is what they slice silicon wafers from, which then get etched and become microchips. I had no idea.
Артек плюс, made by "Красный Октябрь", "Red October"
Certainly the political affiliation of this company is obvious, those Siloviks.
The Trader Joe's Wafer Cookie is, essentially, a wider & flatter Kit-Kat. They had a different knock-off, previously, which was more obvious.
Trader Joes. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
For the Tuesday Night Baking Group. Somebody gave me this recipe last week and I knew as soon as I saw it that I would have to give it a try.
www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/philadelphia-vanilla-mousse-...
"You have to hold it just like this, otherwise it'll shatter into a million pieces and no Intel employee will talk to you ever again."
This is an unfinished 22nm Bay Trail wafer, at the Intel booth at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. Apparently if it was finished the refraction would be blue/yellow, rather than the dull rainbow you see here.
Manufacturing: The cornerstone of the Japanese economy.
A 12 inch silicon wafer, displayed at the Toshiba Science Museum in Kawasaki, Japan.
A photo of a wafer containing the processor codenamed 'Dunnington'.
Dunnington is socket-compatible with the Intel's 7300 chipset based Caneland platform and will be available in the second half of 2008. Dunnington is the first IA (Intel Architecture) processor with 6-cores, is based on the 45nm high-K process technology, and has large shared caches.
I love Manner wafers, so a visit to the company's flagship store was a must. I don't remember exactly how many packets of wafers I left with, but it's a number I can't be proud of. Note: according to Wikipedia, Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, loves Manner wafers, and "Manner wafer products had a cameo appearance in the movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, when the Terminator [...] grabs a bunch when shopping for food at [a] gas station in the desert". Maybe I'll have to vote for him after all.
Petits Fours
Sesame, churro (?), and dark chocolate.
Mansion on Turtle Creek
Dallas, Texas
(October 31, 2014)
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