News tagged with microchip
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Computing experts unveil superefficient 'inexact' chip
Researchers have unveiled an "inexact" computer chip that challenges the industry's dogmatic 50-year pursuit of accuracy. The design improves power and resource efficiency by allowing for occasional errors. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 17, 2012 |
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Scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer
Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or how about transferring a typical 2-hour, 8-gigabyte DVD movie ...
May 24, 2012 |
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Physicists move one step closer to quantum computer
Rice University physicists have created a tiny "electron superhighway" that could one day be useful for building a quantum computer, a new type of computer that will use quantum particles in place of the digital ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Physicists propose solution to constraint satisfaction problems
(PhysOrg.com) -- Maria Ercsey-Ravasz, a postdoctoral associate and Zoltan Toroczkai, professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, have proposed an alternative approach to solving difficult constraint ...
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Nano-factory promises great things for graphene science
Forty times stronger than steel and conducting electricity ten times better than silicon, graphene is the wonder material that could one day replace silicon in microchips. Now the University is opening a new ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 02, 2012 |
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It's a wrap! Nanowire opens gate to new devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an interesting feat of nanoscale engineering, researchers at Lund University in Sweden and the University of New South Wales have made the first nanowire transistor featuring a concentric ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Quantum leap: World's smallest transistor built with just 7 atoms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have literally taken a leap into a new era of computing power by making the world's smallest precision-built transistor - a "quantum dot" of just seven atoms in a single silicon ...
May 24, 2010 |
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'Pruned' microchips are faster, smaller, more energy-efficient
An international team of computing experts from the United States, Switzerland and Singapore has created a breakthrough technique for doubling the efficiency of computer chips simply by trimming away the portions that are ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 16, 2011 |
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New biosensor microchip could speed up drug development
Stanford researchers have developed a new biosensor microchip that could significantly speed up the process of drug development. The microchips, packed with highly sensitive "nanosensors," analyze how proteins ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Chip-in-a-pill may be approved in 2012
(PhysOrg.com) -- Giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, based in Basel, is developing a pill containing an embedded microchip, which it hopes to submit for regulatory approval in Europe within 18 ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 10, 2010 |
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'Spintronics' breakthrough holds promise for next-generation computers
Using powerful lasers, Hui Zhao, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, and graduate student Lalani Werake have discovered a new way to recognize currents of spinning electrons ...
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Scientists first to trap light and sound vibrations together in nanocrystal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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New exotic material could revolutionize electronics
Move over, silicon -- it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence ...
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Scientists Discover Light Force with 'Push' Power
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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'Most extreme' material: Graphene could be successor to silicon for next generation microchips; 200 times stronger than
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 05, 2009 |
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