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"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs, said. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.�... |
20 November 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Reports are now emerging of a site focused on Near Field Communications that claims Apple has built new iPhone models (prototypes) that are equipped to support sensing RFID chips. RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) is a technology that allows a device to sense embedded chips in nearby objects without making direct... |
6 November 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Cambridge, England-based ARM has announced today that it has signed two more licensing agreements for its ARM Mali graphics processing units (GPUs), providing mobile devices with high-definition (HD) entertainment and enhanced browsing experience. Two mobile technology providers in Asia, Rockchip and Telechips, have ... |
29 July 2009
09:34 GMT |
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Imagination Technologies, which makes the iPhone’s PowerVR MBX chip, has introduced a new GP-GPU multi-core mobile processor that sounds like a great candidate for the next generation iPhone, or an Apple tablet. The fresh chip (PowerVX SGX543) is designed to scale from two to sixteen cores without increasing pe... |
19 March 2009
12:14 GMT |
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Clearly Apple doesn't like the buzz circling the web about its new shuffle's headphones, but this is what you get when you try to have full control over 3rd party accessories. According to several reports, a chip found inside the three-button remote controller on the headphone cable has been confirmed by Ap... |
17 March 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Citing the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN), the International Business Times reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) are likely “to land chip orders for Apple's low-cost, entry-level iPhone nano.” Neither of the two publ... |
14 January 2009
05:40 GMT |
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A law has already been issued in Estonia, stating that all interested voters, who must first follow some simple instructions, can vote using their cellphone. As the law has already been approved, it is most likely that users could vote right away, but since the system isn't quite ready, the waiting period will b... |
15 December 2008
08:15 GMT |
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Although scientists have not yet reached a certain conclusion regarding the by now mostly forgotten subject of mobile radiation, Omega Pharma claims that further debate on the subject is useless. Thus, it has developed an anti radiation mobile chip, therefore concluding for all of us that the danger is real.Further d... |
10 December 2008
02:44 GMT |
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As moving large solar-sailed space vehicles around aided by the energy of sunlight has proved to be impossible so far, some experts were not discouraged by the failure. In fact, it made them realize that perhaps, if the energy was too little for such grand purposes, it might still be enough in order to drive machines... |
27 November 2008
09:54 GMT |
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The most famous and oldest machine that ever put us in contact with the universe malfunctioned a little more than a month ago. Ever since, the technicians at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland have been trying to rehabilitate the device's “brain”, namely switching to an alternative o... |
27 October 2008
06:11 GMT |
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As car accidents cause more victims every year, it became clear that some form of warning system for drivers had to be developed. Experts from the Netherlands-based company Mobileye took on the challenge, and designed a camera that is able to recognize potential threats to the security of the car, warning the driver ... |
22 October 2008
09:24 GMT |
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It displays the contents of a newspaper, it's almost as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper, but it's far better than one. It is the e-paper, developed in Britain and produced in Germany.Regular newspapers will most definitely become extinct as early as next year. A credit card-thin plastic displaying dev... |
17 October 2008
04:30 GMT |
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While AT&T was the first to get bashed for the iPhone 3G's poor signal, the focus is now on the device itself, which, according to an analyst at Nomura Securities, packs a faulty chip. It is also being reported that, even following Apple's release of the iPhone 2.1 software update, reports of dropped calls ... |
25 September 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Wei-han Lien, the senior manager of Apple’s chip team and Linkedin user, has accidentally revealed that Apple is busy working on its own iPhone processor, believed to be incorporated in a new handset model.The (obvious) advantage of having its own-developed processor soldered inside iPhone is that Apple can kee... |
16 September 2008
09:51 GMT |
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With the Computex computer show waiting to begin, the biggest news coming from Taiwan isn't related to any of the hardware manufacturers' product releases. Apparently, Taiwan is more concerned with a financial issue, one that could make GPU and processors manufacturers raise the prices for their products.Ac... |
30 May 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Most substances used in suicidal terrorist attacks are usually home made, that's why it is necessary that security enforcement benefit from the help of a small sensor to detect traces left behind by these chemicals. One of the commonest home made explosives is hydrogen peroxide. Researchers from the University o... |
20 March 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Altair Semiconductor is not a name you usually see in the news. However, the fabless chip company claims that it managed to take a huge leap in the WiMax technology: world's smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor.According to the company, the Altair ALT2150 comes with integrated Wave-2 physical... |
14 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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PC and server vendor Hewlett-Packard bought $15 billion worth of semiconductors during the last year, which positions the company as world's biggest semiconductor purchaser for the last year. The report has been issued by market analysis company Gartner, and includes a top of the greatest chip crunching companie... |
26 February 2008
04:55 GMT |
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IBM scientists are currently researcher on linking DNA molecules with conductive carbon nanotubes. The procedure is extremely complicated because of the small scale the engineers are forced to work at. Once the carbon nanotubes are interconnected, the DNA can be shed off, leaving just an orderly grid of nanotubes. Th... |
20 February 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The biggest problem with computer chip minimization today is that the fabrication process of semiconductor chips only allows components larger than the laser light wavelength used in the photoresist process. Any attempts to create smaller structures than the light's wavelengths will ultimately result in the use ... |
14 February 2008
07:07 GMT |
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The ever-powerful computing devices need more and more circuit connections, which ultimately translates in longer links between individual electronic components, fact that determines frequency loss and an overall drop in performance, partially canceling the technological advancements obtained over time. In computer m... |
12 February 2008
08:39 GMT |
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North Carolina-based Nextreme corporation has announced a new cooling solution to offer an efficient alternative to the bulky, noisy and power-consuming classical cooling devices. The Peltier coolers are tiny, efficient, noiseless and can even be integrated into the chip's package. Moreover, the coolers can be s... |
11 January 2008
10:30 GMT |
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The transistor has just celebrated its sixtieth anniversary and it's been about 50 years since it was first integrated into a silicon chip. These tiny switches make a true "neuronal link" inside a processor, but judging by the rapid evolution in the chip world they tend to become useless soon.The need for more a... |
18 December 2007
05:58 GMT |
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IBM has announced that they have joined AMD, Chartered, Freescale, Infineon and Samsung in their efforts to extend the high-k/metal gate 32-nanometer node. Previously, the same companies have collaborated for achieving the same technology for the 45-nanometer node. The companies' attempt is part of the response ... |
11 December 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Seiko Epson Corporation has announced the availability of their new product, the S1R72V18, a USB controller LSI product that supports the USB 2.0 High Speed Mode standard (480 Mbps). Taking advantage of the low power consumption inherited from the S1R72V series, the chip features isochronous transfer mode (The USB ... |
4 December 2007
09:48 GMT |
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AMD has begun to munch over strange ideas lately. First, the AMD guys considered that it would be at least nice to grab Ageia and their PhisX engine for their own graphics technology, but things have gone in a nasty direction, so they postponed it. Threatened by the idea of being kicked out of the world's top 10... |
29 November 2007
11:31 GMT |
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The leading chip manufacturers on the Japanese market, Toshiba and Nec have recently announced their joint project to develop competitive 32-nanometer chip in order to maintain a tight competition on the chips market.This would not be the first partnership between the two semiconductor industry giants, as they have b... |
27 November 2007
08:54 GMT |
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Piracy-related news surface every day, as the phenomenon has gone loose, giving massive headaches to all game and console producers. Taking that into consideration, every victory or justice over modders and hackers can be enjoyed to the fullest. This is also the case of "Mr. Modchips", or 39-year-old Neil Stanley Hi... |
26 October 2007
08:48 GMT |
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So, it's true - good things do come in small packages! MPs in the UK have been praising the "little chip that could" and the people who have been behind it. As Kablenet informs, they've said that the Identity and Passport Service is an excellent example of successful project management and procurement and a... |
11 October 2007
09:49 GMT |
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Flash memory chips are very popular nowadays and they are used in many commercially available applications, ranging from music players to cameras and dedicated storage devices like memory sticks or being used to improve the qualities of other computer hardware parts as is the case with the hybrid hard disk drives.As ... |
9 October 2007
04:12 GMT |
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While various branches of the computer manufacturing industry are facing problems like falling prices or critical parts shortage, the demand for computer central processing units is high and rising, translating into good news for the two most important chips in the world, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. According t... |
24 September 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Realtek Semiconductor Corporation announced that it will present and demonstrate a number of new products and technologies at the on-going Intel Developer Forum which takes place in San Francisco. Among the Realtek products there will be the high performance and low power consumption RTU7105 UWB chip, a wireless USB ... |
19 September 2007
11:15 GMT |
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When it comes to computer chips, few things are more damaging than excessive heat, and cooling solutions that attempt to bring the temperatures down at low or at least manageable levels are now having an industry of their own. What if a computer chip could run at temperatures so high that would normally fry any other... |
12 September 2007
03:31 GMT |
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WiMAX is one of the several wireless networking standards that are active at the present time across the world and it has been heavily supported by the computer hardware manufacturing giant Intel since 2004. Since then it looks like Intel lost some of its interest in the new wireless standard as it now has a "backsea... |
3 September 2007
06:24 GMT |
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The Tylersburg chipset is a HEDT (meaning high end desktop) product based on the 65 nanometer fabrication process that is designed at replacing the Intel Bearlake family of chipsets. The Bearlake is composed of the Logan and Bigby chipsets from the 3rd generation and they are intended for single and dual processor co... |
17 August 2007
03:09 GMT |
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After a long decline and recovery period, the NAND flash memory is finally beginning to get better and offer strong opportunities for memory manufacturers and vendors like Samsung Electronics. The Korean company used the favorable market conditions to increase its lead over its competitors on the NAND chips market, e... |
16 August 2007
08:29 GMT |
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Computer security is one of the most dynamic areas of the entire IT industry, an area where two factions do battle: on the one hand, there are security software solutions like firewalls, antivirus programs and so on; and on the other hand, we have computer viruses, Internet based attacks, spyware and various other ma... |
15 August 2007
08:37 GMT |
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The Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor is one of the well-established companies that are active in the field of computer memories, both video and system ones. While video intended memories do not get really big, there is a very strong tendency among computer users and manufacturers to use bi... |
13 August 2007
11:42 GMT |
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Nvidia became known as a world class graphics chips designer and manufacturer, but its computer chipset business is not too far behind either. Apart from the thoroughly disappointing nForce 1 chipset, which failed to deliver the promised performance for quite a spicy price, all nForce chipsets made by Nvidia, for bot... |
13 August 2007
10:22 GMT |
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After posting a record profit and a very high market share, it looks like Nvidia is now facing problems because of its suppliers that cannot meet the high demand. Shares of Nvidia fell almost 2 percent immediately after the company announced the need to find more suppliers because of a high demand of graphics chips a... |
11 August 2007
04:21 GMT |
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The development of nanotechnology brings us back to an old dream we had long before using silicon chips and transistors - namely a mechanical computer. This dream never came true, but now - when components of a computer can have such dimensions of a millionth the thickness of the human hair - it seems closer than eve... |
10 August 2007
11:35 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems announced the launch of its new chip, codenamed Niagara 2, that is intended as the first of a new generation of processors. The Sun company is probably best known around the world for its software products (the JAVA programming language is a prime example) and less for its server lines or processors.... |
9 August 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Flash memory chips are very popular nowadays as they can be found in almost all electronic devices that are making our lives easier. From the portable music and media players, flash based data sticks, to the solid state drives, NAND chips are expanding their reach. They become very popular due to low overall costs an... |
9 August 2007
06:55 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics announced that it will speed up production in order to meet its monthly targets, after the last week's incident led to the complete halt of the NAND memory chip production. The power outage forced Samsung to shut down six of its NAND production lines and discard most of the flash memory chips... |
7 August 2007
07:44 GMT |
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SanDisk Corp and Micron Technology received an unexpected boost of their combined market share of flash memory chips after the main NAND memory chips producer Samsung Electronics had to stop some of its production of flash memory chips after the facility near Seoul was hit by a power outage, according to InformationW... |
4 August 2007
04:37 GMT |
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The current technological process of building computer and general use chips is centered on the 45 or the larger 60 nanometer scale. This may soon change as a number for alliances and partnerships were agreed upon by most of the big players on the computer hardware market. One such agreement is between Toshiba, Fujit... |
26 July 2007
03:57 GMT |
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A nano sized computer is not really a new and original idea as it has been around for decades in Sci-Fi books and magazines. The new idea is to actually construct them and to use a 200 years old concept, as the nano chip will be in fact a machine inspired by the works of the nineteenth century English mathematician a... |
25 July 2007
10:44 GMT |
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A new and energy-efficient mechanical computer is not only small and incredibly robust, but it was also inspired by the blueprint of a researcher, created by a scientist nearly 200 years ago. It would have been built in its time, it would have meant a computer revolution more than a century and a half before the inv... |
25 July 2007
05:46 GMT |
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STMicroelectronics is a Switzerland electronics manufacturer that recently signed up with IBM in order to jointly develop a new technological process for building computer chips using the 32 and 22 nanometer scales metal-oxide-semiconductors (CMOS) on 300 mm wafers. While now the standard is the larger 45 nm process ... |
25 July 2007
04:23 GMT |
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A full-fledged quantum computer may sound like Sci-Fi but there are people (smart people by the way) that work to build it. "We're still 10 to 20 years away from a quantum computer," says Bells Labs' Steven Simon, as cited by the computer news site PCMag."But we're getting closer and closer." First of ... |
16 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
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