South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. on Wednesday reported its third consecutive quarterly profit as prices for PC memory chips rose.

Technology - Business

Apr 24, 2013 not rated yet 0

Taiwanese companies have long viewed tech giant Samsung as a major threat and the battle has recently appeared to tilt in favor of the South Korean rival as Taiwan's smartphone, memory chip and display panel ...

Technology - Business

Apr 17, 2013 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) —Computer scientist Tom "Tom7" Murphy, has created a software program that is capable of playing early Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video games such as Super Mario Brothers. His paper ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Apr 15, 2013 4.9 / 5 (18) 5 |

Samsung Electronics Co. said its operating profit last quarter rose 53 percent over a year earlier, outpacing expectations for what's normally a slow time for consumer electronics sales.

Technology - Business

Apr 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

IBM today announced a materials science breakthrough at the molecular level that could pave the way for a new class of non-volatile memory and logic chips that would use less power than today's silicon devices ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Mar 21, 2013 3.9 / 5 (7) 1 |

Swiss scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties—graphene and molybdenite—into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Mar 19, 2013 4.6 / 5 (25) 5 |

(Phys.org)—Toshiba has announced a low-power embedded SRAM memory chip which may make future mobile devices last longer. Presenting its SRAM developments at the International Solid-State Circuit Conference in San Francisco ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Feb 25, 2013 2.5 / 5 (2) 2

Researchers from CICnanoGUNE and the University of Cambridge have developed a new technology in the magnetic cooling of chips based on the straining of materials. Compared with the current technologies, this advance enables ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 20, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—For the first time, researchers have designed a special material interface that has been shown to add to and to improve the functioning of non-silicon-based electronic devices, such as those ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 19, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—A material that could enable faster memory chips and more efficient batteries can switch between high and low ionic conductivity states much faster than previously thought, SLAC and Stanford ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Feb 08, 2013 4.8 / 5 (6) 0 |

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Currently, microchips can only pass digital information ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 30, 2013 4.7 / 5 (18) 5 |

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it had bought US medical imaging firm NeuroLogica, as it seeks to explore new growth sources by expanding into the health sector.

Technology - Business

Jan 29, 2013 not rated yet 1

A cheap, flexible organic molecule could replace inorganic crystals as the working parts for memory chips, sensors and energy-harvesting systems.

Physics - General Physics

Jan 24, 2013 4.3 / 5 (4) 1 |

(Phys.org)—By using electric voltage instead of a flowing electric current, researchers from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have made major improvements to an ultra-fast, high-capacity class ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 14, 2012 5 / 5 (18) 10 |

(AP)—A South Korean government agency said Friday that working at a Samsung Electronics factory caused the breast cancer of a worker who died earlier this year, only the second time it has recognized a link between cancer ...

Technology - Business

Dec 14, 2012 not rated yet 0