News tagged with memory circuits
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 ...
Jun 20, 2010 |
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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 ...
Mar 17, 2009 |
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New, Unusual Semiconductor is a Switch-Hitter
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group in Germany has discovered a semiconducting material that can switch its semiconducting properties -- turning from one type of semiconductor to another -- via a simple change in temperature. ...
Jan 30, 2009 |
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High reliability of flexible organic transistor memory looks promising for future electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the constant demand for high-performance nonvolatile memory devices, researchers continue to develop better memories - ones with low power consumption, good reliability, and low manufacturing ...
Jul 08, 2010 |
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New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques
Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 23, 2012 |
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Neuroscientists uncover possible basis of short-term memory
Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience and physiology/biophysics, and Phillip Larimer, PhD, a MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 27, 2009 |
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Physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture
A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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An organic transistor paves the way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers
For the first time, French researchers at CNRS and CEA have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Researchers solve scaling challenge for multi-core chips
Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced that they have identified a path to overcome ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Growth factor protects key brain cells in Alzheimer's models
Memory loss, cognitive impairment, brain cell degeneration and cell death were prevented or reversed in several animal models after treatment with a naturally occurring protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 08, 2009 |
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World's first Content Addressable Memory stores data without using power
NEC Corporation and Tohoku University announced today the development of the world's first content addressable memory (CAM) that both maintains the same high operation speed and non-volatile operation as existing ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Ultralow-power memory uses orders of magnitude less power than other devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- As RFID tags are becoming more widespread for tracking and identifying almost anything, researchers are continuing to develop cheap, ultralow-power memory devices for these applications. In ...
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Scientists ID gene key to Alzheimer's-like reversal
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact gene responsible for a 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease regained ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Faster, cheaper chips from space technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our world is full of integrated semiconductor circuits, commonly known as microchips. Today you find them in computers, cars, mobile phones and in almost every electrical device. Technology ...
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Sleep helps build long-term memories
(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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