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- IBM researchers speed up medical diagnostic testing via chip
- IBM researchers have cooked up a quick medical diagnostic testing system based on a silicon chip that can get by on small sample and test for multiple diseases. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Google Maps and the mystery of the non-existent town
- anagram softwareDid you get the words "not real" out of it? With an extra "G" left over?Brilliant!Good find! If that isn't the solution, then it sure is one heck of a coincidence.It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is it. Similar things -- adding a fictional item...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Caltech develops robot with digital camera to study sight restoration
- That's not Wall-E, but Cyclops, a four-wheeled robot developed by Caltech scientists for studying possible forms of sight restoration with the help of a digital camera planted in the eye of the robot. According to CNET, the movements of the digital camera eye could "help refine...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists
- A pair of physicists have shown that if processors continue to accelerate in accordance to Moore's Law, we'll hit the wall of faster processing in roughly 75 years. The curtain will eventually come down for silicon in today's manufacturing methods once engineers can no longer further shrink...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Gauging our future
- As long as there has been digital tech, it's GIGO. Without data or faulty data, well, you get what you start with. Digital tech does not take cow manure and return tasty tomatoes. So even if your grandchildren are still powering this planet with coal...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Intel: 32nm is just the beginning
- Intel hasn't released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum IDF talking about technology even farther down road. In his keynote, executive VP Sean Maloney gave a glimpse of a desktop running Sandy Bridge, the new microarchitecture that comes after Westmere,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Apricorn's 4 TB hard card: PCI RAID array pt. 1
- The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so the timing was good. You may recall the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- IBM scientists create DNA computer chip
- IBM scientists and a collaborator from the California Institute of Technology have created a computer chip utilizing synthesized DNA molecules. The approach could pave the way to create tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more powerful computer chips. The DNA acts as scaffolding where...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Back to school goes cheap: Here comes another round of Mac vs PC
- Market research firm NPD Group said today that 44 percent of consumers will spend less this back-to-school season. And electronics, despite falling below school supplies and clothing on the priority list, still ranks high on the chart as consumers go cheap and start looking for bargains to keep costs down....
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- To the Moon: Grumman, One Giant Landing for Mankind
- To the Moon: Grumman, One Giant Landing for MankindDigital FBWActually, NASA's F-8 DFBW flew prior to the X-29. The F/A-18 also has DFBW and flew prior to the X-29. The X-29, which did have DFBW, was actually designed to evaluate forward swept wing technology. The DFBW was...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices
- This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineup
- AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineupWhy?This ridiculous...I can understand their wanting to be ahead in the market but 6core? It's absolutely pointless currently. There isn't even enough stuff out that utilizes quad cores, not to mention the 64 bit part either. I enjoy drooling over new tech but there has...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Google on offense: Chrome OS is a wager on the future of computing
- When it comes to Google's entry into the Microsoft-dominated computer operating system business, there's a bigger question as to whether Google's move is an offensive one or a defensive one? Microsoft's official comment on Google's latest announcement seems to be a big fat "no comment" from Bill...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed
- There's always been an inverse relationship between density and durability when it comes to data storage. Today's silicon memory chips contain a lot of density, but with a lifespan of just a few decades, they lack durability. Yet primitive forms of storage such as information carved in stone are highly...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- AMD Istanbul: Field Upgrade Only If Your Hands are Nimble
- The newly-launched AMD Opteron 24xx and 84xx server CPUs have six processor cores. Unlike Intel's Nehalem, which requires entirely new and unproven mainboards, systems, chipsets and sockets, the "Istanbul" is based on existing, mature AMD chipsets and uses the existing 1207-pin Socket F, allowing current Quad-Core...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Photos: Chip champs inducted into hall of fame
- Silicon Valley gala and awards ceremony honors semiconductor industry MVPs. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-05-04
- Apple goes on the defensive: brings chips in-house
- AccordingSometimes that best offense is a good defense. In order to thwart leaks of its strategy and intellectual property Apple is bringing more chip-making expertise in-house. WSJ has a good article today about Apple's shift to focusing on chip design and fabrication. It's an analysis of Apple's...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Silicon Photonic WDM Point-to-Point Network for Multi-Chip Processor Interconnects
- Processor performance in instructions per second continues to rise. But the improvement is no longer coming from increasing clock rates due to the associated power, heat and design complexity costs. Instead, parallelism through multi-core processing has become the technology choice to continue processor performance scaling. Processors with 8 cores and...
- White papers 2009-04-30
- Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers
- Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they'll help overcome many of the limitations of today's microelectronics...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
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