"The company has adapted the process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth to make trillions of holes that provide insulating vacuums around the nano-scale wires inside each chip. As a result, the new chips work 35 percent faster or consume 15 percent less...
"Of course, you eat a balanced diet. That's why you're sure you get all the nutrients you need.
Just yesterday, for example, you had--oh, well, you skipped breakfast because you were in a hurry, then grabbed a fast-food lunch. For dinner--who has the energy to make...
"The evolution of “Speed Passing” RFID technology is making its way on many fronts.
Many sports franchise venues are beginning to place systems at their PoS cashpoints that accept MasterCard’s RFID enabled...
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Using mass transit, so he's eco-friendly! The white cat, who bus drivers have nicknamed "Macavity," takes the bus several times a week, traveling 400meters down the road to a shopping district. Experts believe he's going to the fish and chip shop."Since January, when the cat...
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"Sony said on Saturday it has no plans to pursue further development of advanced microchips in a three-way pact with NEC Electronics and Toshiba, in a potential blow to the Japanese chip sector's bid to join hands to better compete with overseas rivals."
"Stocks Rise Again, But Trade Still Light
BY JONAH KERI
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 3/20/2007
Stocks rose for the second straight session Tuesday, but another bout of quiet volume dimmed the day's gains.
The S&P 500 climbed 0.6%. The index closed near its intraday...
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"Samsung Electronics, Korea's electronics giant, has developed an eight-gigabyte moviNAND memory chip to be used mainly in personal devices requiring high-capacity and fast data-processing functions, the company said Monday.
The chip is a new kind of a memory that combines...
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"Toshiba Corp. is expanding production of NAND flash memory chips faster than originally planned, the company said Monday.
The company is one of the world's largest producers of flash memory chips, which are used in a wide range of consumer electronics products including...
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"And you thought this digital … phone connection (hyperlink) stuff would never catch up with you.
Fujitsu has been working on a way (whitepaper PDF released July 2005) by which printed materials like...
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"Teraflop" is a silly word, like something you'd see in a satire. But evidently this is no joke. I cannot think of a home use for that much computing power."Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just...
"Here I am sitting in front of my brand new Dell Latitude notebook complete with Core 2 Duo processor cranked up to 2GHz, 2GB RAM and the latest integrated graphics chip. Sitting beside the notebook is a brand new...
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"In duelling announcements, Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip...
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"When a patient is admitted to the hospital with signs of a dangerous systemic bacterial infection, or when a post-office worker finds white powder in a suspicious-looking envelope, the ability to quickly identify potential pathogens is important. To accomplish that, a team...
"Intel and IBM have separately made claims of breakthroughs in transistor design that should lead to improved design in sub-micron process technology by reducing the amount of electrical leakage, and extend Moore’s Law into the next decade
According to Moore’s Law, the...
"Intel claims major advancement in the 45nm technology for processors, but IBM and Intel’s rival AMD had already claimed the same thing last December.
The 45 nanometer (45 nm) process is the next milestone (to...
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