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- BOE Saves US$1 Million in Hardware Costs Through More Efficient Resource Utilization
- Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. BOE wanted to monitor six database systems underlying the Computer Integrated Manufacturing CIM system and support continuous operation of the LCD production line as well as make better use of existing hardware to avoid excessive investment in new resources to run applications and databases....
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible
- Apple filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday and outlined a few notable items: A list of most valuable vendors, a second corporate campus on tap, component costs and a potential raise for Steve Jobs. Among the highlights: The company outlined its most valuable...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Evanescent lasers to speed up data transmission
- It is refreshing to note that some scientists also have a solid literary culture. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara UCSB have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser. But what is an 'evanescent' laser? It is a step toward 'combining lasers and other key optical components with the existing...
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Polymer opal films are not for rings
- British and German researchers have developed a new type of flexible plastic film. These 'polymer opal films' can change colors under certain conditions. For example, they could easily help you to see if some kind of perishable food items are not good anymore because the packaging would change color. They...
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- 100% efficient lighting devices?
- You all know that incandescent light bulbs are terribly inefficient, turning only 5% of the electricity it consumes into light. Fluorescent lamps are better using up to 25% of its energy as light. And solid state lighting devices lose only 50% of the energy they received. But now, researchers at...
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Inside a quantum dot
- Until now, physicists who wanted to understand how electrons behaved at the nanoscale needed to choose between instruments which had good spatial resolution down to tens of nanometers or below or fast time resolution down to picoseconds, but not both. But researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL...
- Blog posts 2005-12-03
- Slowing light down to 245 meters per second!
- Several weeks ago, I told you about how Swiss researchers were able to control the speed of light both up and down. Today, I want to share with you the results obtained by other scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, which have used a laser amplifier to slow light...
- Blog posts 2005-10-08
- A nanolithography tool named SOUVENIR
- The semiconductor industry has invested huge amounts of money in future lithographic techniques leading to pattern generation with a resolution of only several nanometers. But now, with a few talented researchers and an investment of only 2.3 million euros, a European team has developed a new nanolithography tool, according to...
- Blog posts 2005-09-01
- New life emerging for Moore's Law
- Imprint lithography--along with silicon nanowires, phase change memory, spintronics optoelectronics, and 3D chips--is among the many emerging technologies that could extend the life of Moore's Law. During this computing principle's 40-year reign, chipmakers have steadily boosted the performance of their products while simultaneously dropping the price. Success, however, has...
- Blog posts 2005-04-19
- Fortune on why Fiorina's big bet is failing
- Fortune on why Fiorina's big bet is failingShe bought the wrong companyAlmost anyone inside either company could have told you that HP and Compaq were a "bad fit". Compaq's corporate culture was "You'll do it 'cause we're from Houston, *THAT'S why!" whereas the HP Way was well known in the...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-26
- Will the real SOA please stand up?
- A reader no doubt frustrated by all the SOA hype observes that Dictionary.com produces many definitions for the acronym "SOA." I personally prefer "State of Anarchy" (which didn't surface), but there's plenty more to chose from. "Shortness of Air" is also an interesting take. (By the way,...
- Blog posts 2005-01-11
- TFT LCD price hike stops
- The steady rise in TFT LCD prices is coming to a halt. Although 15-inch panels are still in short supply and prices have officially risen, TFT LCD makers are selling panels for February shipment to first-tier LCD monitor makers at the same prices as in January, according to sources. Samsung...
- Blog posts 2004-01-28
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