Archive: 06/13/2005
Station Crew Gets Resupply Ship This Week
Expedition 11 is busy preparing for the arrival of a new Russian cargo spacecraft. The new Progress cargo ship will arrive at the International Space Station on June 18, bringing extra oxygen supplies and filters for a faulty ...
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Freescale revamps 1GHz cellular infrastructure product line with sixth-generation LDMOS RF technology
Freescale Semiconductor has significantly enhanced its line of RF power transistors to help customers improve system performance in cellular infrastructure applications operating at frequencies up to 1GHz. The portfolio features ...
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IMEC shows progress in lead-free materials at IMAPS EMPC 2005
IMEC announces advances in identification of lead-free (Pb-free) solder materials in four papers at the 2005 IMAPS European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference (EMPC). Progress is reported in the understanding of the ...
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Spansion 512Mb NOR Flash Memory Ships In Mobile Phone
Spansion LLC, the Flash memory venture of AMD and Fujitsu Limited, today announced that top French handset manufacturer, SAGEM, has developed the SAGEM myX-8 mobile phone using the Spansion S29GL512N Flash memory device – ...
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How scanning your finger could save your life
Who would have thought taking a simple scan of your finger could save your life? Unlikely on the face of it, perhaps, but a consortium including Cranfield Impact Centre and Nissan Technical Centre Europe, has developed a p ...
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Astronomers to Look to Distant Galaxies with Balloon-Borne Telescope
An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the University of Pennsylvania, has launched the most highly sensitive telescope of its kind to be carried by balloon. The Balloon-borne Large Aperture ...
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$13 million awarded to mount nano-attack on plaque
A partnership of 25 scientists from the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, and The Burnham Institute and The Scripps Research Institute -- both of La Jolla -- have been awarded $13 million to use nanotechnologies ...
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'Plastic oil' could improve fuel economy in cars, chemists say
Recycled plastic bottles could one day be used to lubricate your car's engine, according to researchers at Chevron and the University of Kentucky, who in laboratory experiments converted waste plastic into lubricating oil. ...
Jun 13, 2005 |
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Astronomers discover most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet
The world's preeminent planet hunters have discovered the most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet: a possibly rocky world about 7.5 times as massive as the Earth. This hot "super-Earth," just 15 light years awa ...
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Infineon Supplies Industry's First DDR3 Devices to PC Industry
Drives the Development of Future Memory Generations for Computing and Servers Infineon Technologies AG, a leading supplier of memory products, today announced that it has supplied the industry’s first DDR3 (Double Data Rat ...
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Sony Ericsson announces S600, Z520, J210, K608 and W600
On the same day with rival Nokia, Sony Ericsson today announced five new mobile phones.
The S600, Z520, W600, J210 and K608 expand the company's handsets portfolio.
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STMicroelectronics Pioneers Major Breakthrough in SoC Design
Five years of research and development at STMicroelectronics are today revealed by the publication of a book on a novel chip design methodology. In their efforts, the authors of ‘Transaction Level Modeling with SystemC’ have p ...
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National Semiconductor Introduces Miniature Battery Management and Protection ICs for Portable Systems
National Semiconductor Corporation, the world leader in power management technology, today introduced two battery-charging products for portable electronics, a single-cell USB/AC charger, and a charge control and protection ...
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IBM unveils new supercomputer
IBM announced today the launch of the world’s most powerful privately-owned supercomputer, the Watson Blue Gene system, nicknamed BGW, installed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. With a p ...
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Burden of ageing populations may not be so heavy, study
Many analysts have argued that the ageing populations of developing nations represent an economic time bomb for future generations who will have to work to support them. But these fears may not necessarily be justified, according ...
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