IBM unveils new supercomputer

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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 ...


National Semiconductor Introduces Miniature Battery Management and Protection ICs for Portable Systems

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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 ...


STMicroelectronics Pioneers Major Breakthrough in SoC Design

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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 ...


$13 million awarded to mount nano-attack on plaque

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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 ...


Astronomers to Look to Distant Galaxies with Balloon-Borne Telescope

Astronomers to Look to Distant Galaxies with Balloon-Borne Telescope

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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 ...


How scanning your finger could save your life

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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 ...


Freescale revamps 1GHz cellular infrastructure product line with sixth-generation LDMOS RF technology

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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 ...


Station Crew Gets Resupply Ship This Week

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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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