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University of Michigan Predicts Incorporating Boron in Ingan Increases LED Efficiency at High Power
Nov 24, 2017Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
Tags: LEDs, LED Efficiency
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NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation Processors for Autonomous Vehicles
Aug 26, 2016NVIDIA has introduced its newest system on chip (SoC) to power next generation autonomous vehicles at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California. Speaking at the conference, we revealed the architecture and underlying technology of ...
Tags: NVIDIA, Generation Processors, SoC
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Ford Tough Tests Super Duty Cargo Boxes with Aftermarket Equipment
Nov 27, 2015From virtual torture testing in supercomputers to purpose-built potholes, Ford has tough tested the all-new Super Duty -the toughest, smartest, most capable Super Duty ever - to make sure it’s ready for popular aftermarket cargo box ...
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VI Systems Receive €1.97m in Funding Under The Sme Instrument Scheme
Jun 17, 2015VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany (a fabless spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia) has been selected by the European Commission to receive €1.97m in ...
Tags: VI Systems, SME Instrument
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IBM Demonstrated a Key Step Toward Commercializing Computing Technology
Mar 24, 2015The computing and telecoms industries are developing systems to store information in the cloud and analyze enormous amounts of data. IBM Research says that it has demonstrated what could be a key step toward commercializing this next ...
Tags: IBM, CMOS.Electronics
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IBM Is Investing $3bn Over The Next 5 Years to Push The Limits of Chip Technology
Aug 20, 2014IBM 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
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Intel Hopes to Take Hardware Performance to The Next Level with Xeon Phi Chip
Jul 7, 2014Intel hopes to take hardware performance to the next level with its latest Xeon Phi supercomputing chip, which packs an array of new hardware technologies that could eventually find their way to laptops and desktops. The new Xeon Phi ...
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Hewlett-Packard Is Launching Two New Supercomputers
Jun 10, 2014Hewlett-Packard Co. is launching two new supercomputers called Apollo, doubling down on tech hardware as the company looks to take more market share from rival IBM Corp. in the high-end supercomputer realm. The first machine, Apollo 6000, ...
Tags: HP, Electrical, Electronics
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A Powerful Network of Supercomputers Will Be Built in Japan Over The Next Decade
Apr 3, 2014A powerful network of supercomputers will be built in Japan over the next decade, centered around a next-generation exascale machine and coordinated with projects designed to boost industrial use of the technology. This policy vision, ...
Tags: Supercomputer, Computer Products, Electrical, Electronics
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Bitcoin Was The First Widely Known Virtual Currency
Mar 5, 2014Bitcoin has been in the headlines a lot lately due first to news that criminals have been using it for transactions, and more recently because of the collapse of its biggest currency exchange. Now comes news of a new type of virtual ...
Tags: Bitcoin, Virtual Currency, math problem
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HTC Announced at Mobile World Congress on Monday Its New Power to Give Project
Feb 28, 2014HTC announced at Mobile World Congress on Monday its new Power To Give project, which aims to donate processor power to scientific research. Planning on bringing together the power of millions of smartphones, the Android for altruism ...
Tags: smartphones, app, processor power
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IBM Has Set a New Speed Record for Data Transmission Over Multimode Optical Fiber
Feb 27, 2014IBM has set a new speed record for data transmission over multimode optical fiber (which is typically used to connect nearby computers within a single building or on a campus). The researchers reckon that the achievement demonstrated that ...
Tags: Optical Fiber, IBM, Data Transmission
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Engineers Hope Carbon Nanotubes Offer a New Cooling Solution
Feb 11, 2014Computer 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 ...
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Chemists at The University of Aberdeen Were Examining a New Compound to Explore
Feb 8, 2014(Phys.org) —An attempt to uncover the 'holy grail' of a lossless energy source has inadvertently led to a study which could result in the next generation of high-speed, mass storage hard drives. Chemists at the University of ...
Tags: new material, next generation, holy grail, Colossal Magneto Resistance
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Imec Has Grown to Be a Multi-Disciplinary Expertise Center
Jan 21, 2014Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC