January 5, 2009 - Technology News
Sidebar: Future Chips: Hundreds of Threads
Chip makers are already creating designs that stretch beyond two cores.
Just last month, Raza Microelectronics Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., ...
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December 9, 2008 - Technology News
Subatomic IT
The work of Jim Allen, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is so far removed from everyday experience that he has ...
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October 20, 2008 - Industry News
Solid-state still an emerging technology: users, analysts
Organisations are slowly starting to more closely evaluate solid-state storage technologies, though most are still waiting for the cost to ...
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September 16, 2008 - Industry News
Blowing past quads, Intel launches 6-core chips
The processor world has officially moved beyond quad-core. Intel Corp. today unveiled the new Xeon 7400 series, which had been dubbed ...
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August 20, 2008 - Industry News
Keep the customer satisfied — no matter how small
Real competition may only just be hotting up, but New Zealand already has a few next generation telcos. Computerworld looked at four companies: ...
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August 11, 2008 - Technology News
Nanotechnology offers benefits, but poses risks
Some say the emerging technology harbours hidden dangers. Sound preposterous? Then consider this: Some keyboards contain nanosilver, ...
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August 5, 2008 - Technology News
The Grill: Peter Sandborn talks about living with obsolescence
An obsolescence expert talks about anticipating obsolescence, dealing with it and understanding that it is part of Microsoft's business plan ...
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August 1, 2008 - Technology News
How TVs will get much, much flatter
Plasma is dead. Front and rear projection? Fuggeddaboutit. LCD has a few good years left, and then it's sayonara, baby. TV technology's future ...
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July 28, 2008 - Technology News
Beyond batteries: fuel cells are the future
Whether you're talking on a cellphone, listening to tunes on a media player or typing on a notebook, it's a good bet that the device's ...
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June 20, 2008 - Technology News
First look: MSI's Wind low-cost laptop
Taiwan's Micro-Star International announced its competitor for the new low-cost laptop market, the Wind, early this month at Computex, and I ...
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June 9, 2008 - Technology News
The future of e-paper: The Kindle is only the beginning
Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle has turned a long underperforming category of tech gadget -- e-book readers -- into an overnight hit, and in the ...
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June 6, 2008 - Technology News
Timeline: A brief history of the x86 microprocessor
Gordon Moore at Fairchild Semiconductor observes in an article for Electronics magazine that the number of transistors on a semiconductor ...
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May 12, 2008 - Technology News
Fujitsu climbs volcano to test chips
The top of a dormant volcano in Hawaii might seem like an unlikely place to work on improving the reliability of computer chips, but that's ...
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May 9, 2008 - Technology News
Are solid-state disks going mainstream?
Technology has been making progress rapidly in all sectors of the IT world in the last decade. Perhaps arguably none more quickly than ...
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April 1, 2008 - Top Story News
Gartner: Chip industry in 'indefinite' slowdown
The global semiconductor industry is in a slowdown that one industry analyst doesn't see it coming out of anytime soon, if ever. Worldwide ...
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March 18, 2008 - Industry News
Intel: Six-core chip to ship by second half '08
Intel Corp. today announced that it expects to ship a six-core processor to resellers in the second half of this year. With 1.9 billion ...
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March 17, 2008 - Technology News
IBM, Hitachi team up on chip research
IBM and Hitachi have announced a research agreement in which they will collaborate to improve semiconductor technology, including shrinking ...
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March 11, 2008 - Industry News
IBM, Hitachi team up to advance chip research
IBM and Hitachi are expected to announce a research agreement this week in which the companies will collaborate to improve semiconductor ...
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February 25, 2008 - Technology News
Electric nanotech T-shirt
Nanotechnology researchers have developed a shirt that brings new meaning to the slogan "power to the people". The researchers, from ...
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December 13, 2007 - Top Story News
The transistor: The most important invention of the 20th century?
You can forget inventions like air conditioning, television, the computer and the Internet. The single most important invention of ...
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December 5, 2007 - Technology News
Unsung innovators: 10 people who shaped the computer industry
Their names are so familiar that they roll off your tongue like a song that keeps rattling around in your head: Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, ...
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November 28, 2007 - Technology News
Toshiba and NEC join forces on 32nm chip research
In an effort to cut costs and speed innovation in a competitive semiconductor industry, Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. ...
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November 7, 2007 - Industry News
Global microchip sales up 6% in September
Global microchip sales rose 5.9% in September, driven by demand for consumer products such as personal computers and cell phones, the ...
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September 20, 2007 - Industry News
RFID heading to cell phones
Presenters at RFID World in Boston today focused on using second-generation active and passive radio frequency identification tags to ...
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September 13, 2007 - Technology News
IBM chips simplify, reduce cost of mobile phones
IBM has designed new semiconductor technology that will make it easier and cheaper to build cell phones, potentially extending the reach of ...
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