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Microsoft Must Conquer Chromebooks to Win The Cheap Laptop Wars; and This Is Its Big Chance

May 2, 2017

Microsoft has a lot to answer for in the world of cheap laptops. I’m not convinced Windows 10, as it stands, is fit for the realities of budget netbooks. The likes of Google’s basic but ever-improving Chrome OS and the ...

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Nissan Trials Self-Driving Cars in Europe

Mar 1, 2017

Japanese automaker Nissan has demonstrated its latest autonomous drive technology on public roads in Europe for the first time. The demo took part in the east of London. Prior to this, the automaker has carried out public-road testing of ...

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University of Wisconsin–Madison Claims First Carbon Nanotube Transistors to Outperform Silicon

Sep 7, 2016

For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...

Tags: CNTs, GaAs, FETs

Brain-like Computer Chip Developed by Chinese Scientists

Dec 25, 2015

The human brain is the world's most sophisticated computer, but a group of Chinese scientists have developed a computer chip that works much like the brain. Jointly developed by scientists from Hangzhou Dianzi University and Zhejiang ...

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ASU Researchers Demonstrate White Lasers that Could Potentially Replace LEDs

Nov 12, 2015

While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light. Researchers at Arizona State ...

Tags: ASU, White Lasers, LEDs

Nissan Tests Leaf Based Autonomous Car on Public Road

Nov 3, 2015

Nissan has started testing its Leaf-based autonomous car prototype capable of driving on both highway and urban roads of Japan. The Japanese automaker wants to test "Piloted Drive" mode, which is a part of its Intelligent Driving System ...

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GE and SUNY Poly Developing SiC Power Electronics Packaging Facility at Quad C

Aug 25, 2015

New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...

Tags: SiC Power Electronics, packaging

IBM Developed a Process for Growing Compound Semiconductor Crystals

Jun 12, 2015

A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...

Tags: IBM III-Vs-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics, IBM

Light and Sound Interaction in Nanoscale Waveguide Are Shown by Ghent University and Imec

Feb 27, 2015

Researchers at Ghent University and nanoelectronics R&D center Imec of Leuven, Belgium have demonstrated interaction between light and sound in a nanoscale area using a silicon photonic nanowire (R. Van Laer et al, Nature Photonics (2015); ...

Tags: silicon photonic chips, silicon photonics

The First Semiconductor Laser Consisting Solely of Main Group IV Elements

Jan 22, 2015

In cooperation with international partners, Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland have presented what is claimed to be the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of ...

Tags: Group-IV Lasers, clock signal, Electrical

IBM Is Investing $3bn Over The Next 5 Years to Push The Limits of Chip Technology

Aug 20, 2014

IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...

Tags: IBM, Big-Data Systems

A Growing Number of Companies Are Eagerly Promoting Carbon in One Specific Form

Aug 18, 2014

It’s not often that anyone speaks highly of carbon, given the part that element plays in climate change. But a growing number of companies are eagerly promoting carbon in one specific form: It’s called grapheneGraphene is an ...

Tags: UK, Electrical, Electronics

University of Washington Scientists Have Built The Thinnest-Known LED

Mar 12, 2014

These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that emit light with the movement of electrons. As devices get smaller and faster, there is more demand for such semiconductors that are tinier, stronger and more energy efficient. University of ...

Tags: semiconductors, three-dimensional LEDs, two-dimensional materials

Graphene and Copper Is Combined by Researchers in Hopes of Shrinking Electronics

Mar 12, 2014

Researchers have discovered that creating a graphene-copper-graphene "sandwich" strongly enhances the heat conducting properties of copper, a discovery that could further help in the downscaling of electronics. The work was led by ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics

Nanotubes Build Logic Circuits That Could Be Manipulated Both Electrically and Optically

Feb 27, 2014

Engineers trying to speed up communication between computer chips have been working on using beams of light to replace the copper traces that shuttle data between microprocessors. Now a pair of researchers at Northeastern University in ...

Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Computer Electronics

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