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In Brief: Development of a new chip for characterizing ultrafast optical pulses

Boosting up microprocessors -the heart of modern computers- at the speed of light, reducing consumptions and costs, may now be a reality thanks to the development of a new high-performance chip, the results of which have ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung starts new chip line to boost flash memory

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it has begun mass production at a new line to raise production of flash memory chips used in tablets and smartphones.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Faster, smaller and more economical gallium nitride transistors

For the first time, researchers from CNRS France and ETH Zurich have succeeded in producing high-performance high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) made of gallium nitride (GaN) on a silicon(110) wafer. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Samsung seeks sales ban on iPhone 5

South Korea's Samsung Electronics will file lawsuits to try to block the sale of Apple's iPhone 5 as part of its global legal tussle with the US technology giant, a report said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

New ceramic chip antennas offer better performance, reliability

Wireless devices such as mobile phones rely on the radio spectrum to send and receive data. There is growing interest in using a worldwide unlicensed spectrum around 60 gigahertz for future wireless applications, ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny wires a step towards photonic chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have engineered one of the world’s smallest ever nanowires for the next generation of telecommunication technology, bringing them one step closer to the holy grail of optics – ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Team AMD FX sets Guiness record

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has set the world record of fastest CPU with a speed frequency of 8.429 GHz, winning the company a place in the Guiness World Records. AMD’s yet-to-ship Bulldozer-based FX chips drew ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

Intel teams with Google on smartphone chips

Intel on Tuesday announced that it has teamed with Google to tailor chips to get top performance out of smartphones powered by the Internet giant's Android software.

Technology / Business

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Broadcom to acquire NetLogic for about $3.7B

(AP) -- Broadcom Corp. said Monday it has agreed to acquire NetLogic Microsystems Inc. for about $3.7 billion in cash.

Technology / Business

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US gets chance to catch up on credit card security

The next time you swipe your credit card at check-out, consider this: It's a ritual the rest of the world deems outdated and unsafe.

Technology / Other

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 17

3M and IBM to develop new types of adhesives to create 3D semiconductors

3M and IBM announced that the two companies plan to jointly develop the first adhesives that can be used to package semiconductors into densely stacked silicon “towers.” The companies are aiming ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Yahoo's stock rises after Bartz fired as CEO

(AP) -- Yahoo's stock rose more than 5 percent on Wednesday after the company fired its CEO following more than 2 1/2 years of financial lethargy.

Technology / Business

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Invention saving consumers trillions of watt hours and millions of dollars

A University of California, San Diego technology that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices has recently passed the trillion watt-hour ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Building chips from collapsing nanopillars

By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists put a new spin on traditional information technology

Is it time for a communications paradigm shift? Scientists calculate that encoding and sending information via electron spin, instead of voltage changes, may mean tiny chips could transmit more information and consume less ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast