There is a big effort in industry to produce electrical devices with more and faster memory and logic. Magnetic memory elements, such as in a hard drive, and in the future in what is called MRAM (magnetic random access memory), use ...
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Computer chips used in next-generation smartphones and supercomputers can't get much faster without overheating.That's why engineers hope carbon nanotubes offer a possible cooling solution that could enable processing speeds to continue ...
Researchers at New York University have developed a method for creating and directing fast moving waves in magnetic fields that have the potential to enhance communication and information processing in computer chips and other consumer ...
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"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
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Intel's fourth-quarter net income rose 6 percent, as the company offset flat demand for its personal computer chips with higher sales of other products. The world's largest chipmaker earned $2.63 billion, or 51 cents per share, up from ...
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As spending on gadgets flattens in a world obsessed with smartphones and tablets, the Consumer Electronics Show here hopes to be a launch pad for a new must-have device. From drones and smart cars to remote-controlled door locks and ...
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Manufacturers of increasingly minute computer chips, transistors and other products will have to take special note of research findings at the University of Huddersfield. The implications are that a key process used to transform the ...
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From drones and smart cars to remote-controlled door locks and eyewear, the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show promises to showcase the "Internet of Things," along with gadgets like smartphones and tablets. The technology extravaganza that ...
Honeywell announced it will establish a new manufacturing campus in Zhangjiagang, China, to support growing demand in Asia for energy technology and advanced materials produced by its Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT) business. ...
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More than 400,000 Honda Odyssey and MDX models have been recalled around the world to fix a defect with the cars' airbag systems. Approximately 342,000 Honda Odyssey people-movers and 63,400 Honda MDX SUVs are affected by the recall ...
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Researchers in Silicon Valley have managed to observe electrical switching that is thousands of times faster than transistors used in today's computer chips. Their work could lead to a better understanding of how transistors work at the ...
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TWELVE hours, 15 minutes. That's the video playback time the new MacBook Air delivered in our tests - conducted at 75 per cent screen brightness on a 13-inch model. Last week, we pitted the 2013 MacBook Air against its predecessor, the ...
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Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
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Funded by the US Army Research Office, researchers at North Carolina State University ( at the atomic scale (just one atom thick). The technique can be used to create the thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are ...
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The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can be modified in a new way to advance future electronics, according to a new study. Chemists at Ohio State University have developed the technology for ...