Applications include musical synthesizers and tiny biomedical devices The dream of using a computer chip to operate and control tiny devices that can fit in a pocket or even inside the body might be moving one step closer ...
Sep 30, 2004
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NEC Electronics Corporation today announced a new DVD recorder codec IC family that offers affordable and flexible single-chip solutions for developing low-cost DVD recorders. The new products build on NEC Electronics' µPD61181 ...
Sep 30, 2004
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc., Motorola, Inc. and Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, Inc. a $3.6 million grant to develop "free standing" carbon nanotube electrodes ...
Sep 30, 2004
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Renesas Technology Corp. has standardized on MaskCompose™ for automated reticle design synthesis in its 90 nanometer design flow. MaskCompose provides a highly efficient ...
Sep 30, 2004
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Computer models of Earth's climate have consistently linked long-term, high-magnitude variations in solar output to past climate changes. Now a closer look at earlier studies of the Sun casts doubt on evidence of such cycles ...
Sep 30, 2004
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A NASA institute has selected a new University of Colorado at Boulder proposal for further study that describes how existing technologies can be used to study planets around distant stars with the help of an orbiting "starshade." ...
Sep 30, 2004
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Device allows naked eye to see motion of 10 nanometers A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known. "There was nothing in the [optics] literature to predict ...
Sep 30, 2004
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A team of Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University scientists conducted a research cruise in late August to the "dead zone" - a region in the northern Gulf of Mexico that suffers from low oxygen and results in ...
Sep 30, 2004
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Nanomechanical memory cell could catapult efforts to improve data storage There are no gears or levers involved, nor even, for those who remember such things, punch cards transported in oblong boxes. Yet research by a Boston ...
Sep 30, 2004
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SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today introduced the world’s fastest flash memory cards – the SanDisk Extreme™ III line of CompactFlash, SD™ and Memory Stick PRO™ digital film cards. The CompactFlash and SD ...
Sep 30, 2004
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