Items tagged with Silicon
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Mar 01, 2023
Scientists across multiple disciplines are working together in order to create biocomputers, where brain organoids serve as biological hardware. While brain organoids are not "mini-brains," the scientists say they share key aspects of...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 14, 2021
A recent job listing shows Microsoft is on the hunt for a Director of SoC Architecture, a full-time position within its Surface division. The job listing outlines the necessary qualifications to be considered for the role and some of the...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 26, 2021
As part of an effort to accelerate its investments in the United States, Apple announced it is committing more than $430 billion over the next five years towards different projects across the country, including a new high-tech campus being...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Jul 06, 2017
Remember when a 1TB hard drive seemed enormous? There was also a time when the idea of having even 8GB of memory in our personal computers seemed like extreme overkill. Today, that's basically the starting point for most PCs. As time goes...
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Kory Kessel - Thu, Apr 30, 2015
Three atoms thick. According to a paper published this week in the science journal Nature by a group of researchers from Cornell University, that is the breadth of the transistors that can now be produced using an experimental — and highly...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Sep 11, 2014
The trickle-down effect has applied to technology for some time, but this feels more rapid than usual. Just a few years after LTE was introduced, and reserved only for flagship phones, Qualcomm has introduced a new SoC that could bring LTE...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Sep 09, 2014
The television may not be what it once was for a mainstay like Toshiba, but the company's still investing in other growth areas. Just this week, it announced plans to plow 200 billion yen (around $1.9 billion) into its chip business beyond...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Jan 15, 2014
If you needed concrete proof that we should all be amazed at just how quickly things change in the technology world, look no further. In 2009, Intel proudly boasted that it would spend around $7 billion to build a massive fabrication facility in Arizona. In the years since, the PC market has...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Apr 01, 2013
You have to wonder: how many companies have to do the same thing before it officially becomes a trend? With Samsung, Apple and select mega-corporations all mulling the idea (or moving forward with plans) to construct their own silicon, it shouldn't come as a major surprise to hear that Lenovo...
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Dave Altavilla - Fri, Jan 29, 2010
You know, it's not often we get to bestow upon you words of pure wisdom. Sure, we provide detailed, timely news, product and technology analysis but really, we're not in the business of covering your backside. That's what Moms are for or your personal Wingman or Wingwoman, as the...
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Marco Chiappetta - Sun, Dec 07, 2008
Intel's Silicon Photonics Advancement Aims to Accelerate Future Computing, Communications SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 7, 2008 - Intel researchers have made the next advance in the field of Silicon Photonics by achieving world-record performance using a silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD) that could lower costs and improve performance...
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Chad Weirick - Wed, Mar 26, 2008
Companies have been trying to find a way around Moore's Law for quite some time now, and a large part of that search involves new materials. One such material is called Graphene, and can be made into flexible sheets only a single atom thin."Graphene is mechanical tough, flexible, transparent, and a great conductor of heat. The...
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Gregory Sullivan - Fri, Feb 08, 2008
Seattle has been a boomtown a half-a-dozen times over the years. Looks like it is again. The entrepreneurs of the digital age seemed to have settled on the Seattle area as the next big thing - the overcast version of Silicon Valley. “The Seattle start-up ecosystem is vibrant, and...
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Gregory Sullivan - Mon, Dec 17, 2007
Is sixty years a long time? I guess, but it's not ancient history. On December 16, 1947 at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, the world's first transistor was born. Ever since the people at Bell got over wondering just what they needed those little semiconductor amplifiers for, when they had perfectly good vacuum tubes hanging around to...
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Gregory Sullivan - Thu, Dec 06, 2007
Well, I assume they do. They seem to know more about it than anybody. In a breakthrough paper delivered in the Optics Express journal, IBM has demonstrated their method for greatly improving the transfer of information between multiple computer chip cores, substituting ...
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Michael Santo - Mon, Oct 15, 2007
Why would Silicon Valley, which birthed the idea of the cubicle, be moving away from it? Even Intel, which is often credited with the idea, is rethinking it.Cubicles can prompt odd behavior, people who have studied them said. It is hard to see if colleagues are busy, so some...
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Michael Santo - Sun, Aug 19, 2007
I know that it's crazyI know that it's nowhereBut there is no denying thatIt's hip to be square(Huey Lewis & the News)Admit it: Silicon Valley is the land of the Geek. For startups, this generally translates to things like video games, foosball and table tennis. Now the latest "stress...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Mar 01, 2007
Silicon Valley And World Leaders To Partner, Bring Technology To Developing Countries Intel Chairman: Speeding Access Will Improve Education, Health Care, Entrepreneurism, Government Services MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 28, 2007 - Members...
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Stacy Doss - Thu, Nov 23, 2006
Silicon -- the archetypal semiconductor -- has at long last been shown to demonstrate superconductivity. By substituting 9% of the silicon atoms with boron atoms, Physicists in France have found that the resistance of the material drops sharply when cooled below 0.35 K (Nature 444 465)....
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