News tagged with computer memory

Researchers use computational models to study fear

The brain is a complex system made of billions of neurons and thousands of connections that relate to every human feeling, including one of the strongest emotions, fear. Most neurological fear studies have been rooted in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

ASUS Unveils First TUF Series Motherboard

ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i.

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Upgrading RAM is a simple process

Question: I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I want to be sure it has four gigabytes of RAM. My friends tell me to buy the cheapest configuration and upgrade the RAM myself. How hard is it to upgrade RAM in a computer?

Technology / Other

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 23 feature

Samsung Electronics posts 'outstanding' Q2 results

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's leading computer memory chipmaker, on Friday posted what it called "outstanding" second-quarter results due to a recovery in prices and demand.

Technology / Business

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain develops motor memory for prosthetics, study finds

"Practice makes perfect" is the maxim drummed into students struggling to learn a new motor skill - be it riding a bike or developing a killer backhand in tennis. Stunning new research now reveals that the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Committing single events to memory: Scientists discover how the brain remembers one-time experiences

(PhysOrg.com) -- Single events account for many of our memories - a marriage proposal, a wedding toast, a baby's birth. Until a recent UC Irvine discovery, scientists knew little about what happens inside ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Project Whirlwind comes home

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from ...

Technology / Other

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New memory material may hold data for one billion years

(PhysOrg.com) -- Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (45) | comments 17

Rambus says FTC has dropped antitrust claims

(AP) -- Rambus Inc. said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has dropped its claim that the memory chip company violated antitrust laws in patenting technologies that were eventually incorporated into industry standards.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Spirit Resumes Driving While Analysis of Problem Behaviors Continues

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Hynix reports sixth straight quarterly loss

South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest computer memory chipmaker, Friday reported a sixth straight quarterly loss due to weak chip prices sparked by a global recession.

Technology / Business

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Electronics reports 72% profit slump

South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's top computer memory chipmaker, has announced its first-quarter net profit fell 72 percent year-on-year as poor demand depressed prices.

Technology / Business

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Magnetic Vortex Switch Leads to Electric Pulse

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that changing the chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1