The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cell phones and giant data centers, report computer science professors from The University of Texas at Austin and ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 20, 2012
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(Phys.org)—It's relatively simple to build a device capable of detecting wireless signals if you don't mind making one that consumes lots of power. It's not so easy to design energy-efficient devices that function as well ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Feb 7, 2013
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Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers' speed and cut their power consumption more than a thousandfold—think of a mobile phone that holds its charge for months—but the set of ...
Nanophysics
Sep 24, 2020
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(Phys.org) —An alternative and novel concept in electronics is to utilize the wave quantum number of the electron in a crystalline material to encode information. In a new article in Nature Materials, Isberg et.al. propose ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 22, 2013
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Researchers have developed an easy-to-use optical chip that can configure itself to achieve various functions. The positive real-valued matrix computation they have achieved gives the chip the potential to be used in applications ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 11, 2023
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Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Oct 29, 2009
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Combining unprecedented security, performance and energy efficiency, Intel Corporation today launched the Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series.
Hardware
Mar 16, 2010
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ZiiLABS, a pioneering media processor and platforms company (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd), today unveiled its ground-breaking 100-core ZMS-40 StemCell Media processor optimized for Android. The ZMS-40 ...
Hardware
Jan 5, 2012
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The worst drought in nearly a century to hit two key regions in Brazil is wreaking havoc on hydroelectric dams and crops—and threatening the nascent pandemic recovery of Latin America's biggest economy.
Environment
Jun 9, 2021
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Scientists from St. Petersburg University together with their foreign colleagues have created the world's first two-dimensional ferromagnetism in graphene. Use of the obtained magnetic state of graphene can become the basis ...
Nanophysics
Dec 16, 2022
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