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HP Labs find memristors can compute (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at HP Labs, the central research arm of HP, have discovered that a resistor with memory, a “memristor” can also perform logic operations. This means chips storing data may also ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (45) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

SSDs the size of a postage stamp coming soon

(PhysOrg.com) -- One-terabyte (TB) solid state drives (SSDs) are expected to be released in a couple of years, and they will be about the size of the average postage stamp.

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (39) | comments 18 | with audio podcast weblog

New software design technique allows programs to run faster

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new approach to software development that will allow common computer programs to run up to 20 percent faster and possibly incorporate new security ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Silicon chips to enter world of high speed optical processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Sydney have brought silicon chips closer to performing all-optical computing and information processing that could overcome the speed limitations intrinsic ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New silicon memory chip developed

(Phys.org) -- The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions – opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Memristor chip could lead to faster, cheaper computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- The memristor is a computer component that offers both memory and logic functions in one simple package. It has the potential to transform the semiconductor industry, enabling smaller, faster, cheaper chips ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Computer chip that computes probabilities and not logic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lyric Semiconductor has unveiled a new type of chip that uses probability inputs and outputs instead of the conventional 1's and 0's used in logic chips today. Crunching probabilities is much ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (27) | comments 19 | with audio podcast weblog

Hydra flash memory outperforms other top storage mediums

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although today flash memory is primarily used as a removable storage medium, it's currently becoming more and more appealing for a wider variety of applications. Moving beyond memory cards ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 11 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 3

Quantum computer - tune in now: Atomic antennae transmit quantum information across microchip

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Austrian research group led by physicist Rainer Blatt suggests a fundamentally novel architecture for quantum computation. They have experimentally demonstrated quantum antennae, which ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

Toshiba Launches 128GB Embedded NAND Flash Memory Module

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba announced today the first ever 128GB embedded flash memory chip using 32 nanometer processes. The entire design is less than 0.06 inches thick.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Elusive spintronics success could lead to single chip for processing and memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have shown that a magnetically polarised current can be manipulated by electric fields.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Beyond flash -- memories are made of this

(PhysOrg.com) -- The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Transparent, flexible '3-D' memory chips may be the next big thing in small memory devices

New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures — twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven — and survive ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast