November 26, 2008 - Top Story News
Mobiles, chip stocks both mugged by global downturn
In recent days, mobile handset makers have been issuing warnings that the cellphone market won't match previous growth projections. Samsung ...
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November 5, 2008 - Technology News
Carbon nanotubes give cheap fiberoptics a pulse
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are making inroads into the world of lasers where, traditionally, exotic semiconductor materials have dominated. ...
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October 14, 2008 - Technology News
Superconductivity at the flip of a switch
Superconductivity research has produced a recent flurry of newly observed phenomena, including a paper, covered last week by Nobel Intent, ...
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October 2, 2008 - Industry News
AMD: We're well on our way to Shanghai, 45nm CPUs
With the fourth quarter now upon us, the market's gaze has begun to turn full force on AMD and the imminent launch of the company's Shanghai ...
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September 26, 2008 - Technology News
Spectroscopy on a chip finally done right
The MESA+ Research Institute for Nanotechnology is an organization dedicating to providing the supporting infrastructure for a diverse ...
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September 18, 2008 - Technology News
Rochester Cube's chips are stacked—in a prototype fashion
You have to admire the effectiveness of the University of Rochester's PR team, because this "First 3-D processor runs at 1.4GHz on new ...
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September 4, 2008 - Technology News
Chartered follows rival TSMC into 40nm space
To improve performance of computer components—like the CPU—chipmakers reduce the nanometer scale used to build the components. For optimum ...
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August 15, 2008 - Technology News
Patterning next-generation circuitry with ordered polymers
For decades, the microelectronics industry has relied on optical lithography to pattern the increasingly minute features of electronic ...
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April 22, 2008 - Technology News
Integrated optics: the way to scale a quantum computer
Ars has been covering quantum computing developments for a while now. Quantum computing, instead of using bits that are definitely one or ...
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March 25, 2008 - Technology News
New inkjet tech can "print" LCDs using silver nanoparticles
Most of the attention paid to semiconductor manufacturing focuses on chips, where advanced process technologies are now etching features ...
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January 31, 2008 - Technology News
40Mbps DSL? Rim Semi claims high speeds at long distances
Last week, we covered AT&T's coming upgrade to its U-Verse service and the potential impact of its faster speed grades on the company's ...
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December 17, 2007 - Industry News
IBM's fab alliance gears up for battle at 32nm
IBM and its fab alliance—AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung—announced last week that ...
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December 10, 2007 - Industry News
New transistor design may kick off race to 10GHz
Japanese company Unisantis, founded in 2004 to develop and commercialize a new type of transistor, has announced a 24-month collaborative ...
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October 5, 2007 - Technology News
Growing nanotubes on microprocessors could lead to cooling breakthrough
Nanotechnology often seems like a magical science, promising everything from tiny robots that can build cities on other planets to eternal ...
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July 31, 2007 - Industry News
Intel on EU antitrust charges: Our actions benefited consumers
Intel has responded to the European Commission's Statement of Objections outlining alleged anticompetitive behavior, saying that its conduct ...
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March 14, 2007 - Technology News
AMD offers $250,000 prize to help Third World get online
AMD plans to award a $250,000 prize to whoever can design a computer lab that can be adapted and implemented in third-world countries. ...
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November 8, 2006 - Technology News
Can a headend-on-a-chip ease the coming cable crunch?
Facing increased competition from phone networks armed with rolls of fiber networking cable, cable TV operators like Comcast and Time Warner Cable ...
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August 25, 2006 - Industry News
Self-assembled photonic materials in complex geometry
Photonic crystals/materials have been mentioned before here in Nobel Intent and Ars Technica, as they offer the promise of optical equivalents to ...
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