Archive: 09/20/2004
National Expands Industry-Leading Family of Gate Drivers with the Introduction of Two Ultra-Small Products
National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced the latest additions to its family of high-voltage power control integrated circuits designed to provide efficient DC-DC power supply solutions. The dual-channel ...
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RIT's NanoPower lab wins $1.2 million to build tiny power supplies for military
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funds three-year project Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology's NanoPower Research Laboratories (NPRL) won $1.2 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
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Next generation solar cells may someday power NASA's robotic explorers
The success of the Mars Exploration Rovers is a sign of things to come in the realm of space exploration. Robotic technology will play an increasingly important part in NASA's new Exploration Systems Mission Directorate-one ...
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Nanotechnology may give plastic solar cells a boost
RIT researches new power supply solutions for BP Solar Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology's NanoPower Research Laboratories have received a boost in their search for new power supply solutions. Funding from BP Solar ...
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Texas Instruments Makes IP Phones Portable
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced the addition of an integrated platform for the development of a high-performance Wireless LAN (WLAN) IP phone, to its market leading suite of Voice over Broadba ...
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Size matters in determining strength of metals, inorganic material
A new research technique developed by a team of researchers including Jeff Florando of DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has shown that the mechanical properties of nickel and some of its alloys - such as their ab ...
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Accelerator Systems Division keeps nation's brightest X-rays beaming
Argonne is home to the Advanced Photon Source, this hemisphere's most brilliant source of X-rays for scientific research. The Accelerator Systems Division maintains the equipment to provide optimal X-ray quality with few inte ...
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UMC Expands Embedded Memory Portfolio to Target Fast Growing Smart Card Market
Foundry's first 0.25um embedded EEPROM delivers reliability and low power advantages UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has developed the foundry's first true embedded EEPROM based on UMC ...
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Canada's Biggest Calculator
A University of Alberta professor has harnessed the power of 4,000 computers across the country to condense 20 years worth of computing work into 48 hours.
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A New Clue to the Hypothesis of Life on Mars
Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result, from data obtained by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer ...
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Have you run out of energy?
Imagine having your own annual greenhouse gas allowance which you ’spend’ each time you fill up with petrol or pay an electric or gas bill. It sounds like a scene from a futuristic movie, but this scenario could really happen ...
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Nanotechnology for fighting cancer
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced today at a media briefing a new $144.3 million, five-year initiative to develop and apply nanotechnology to cancer. Nanotechnology, the development and engineering of devices so sma ...
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Industry's First 2-Gigabit DDR2 SDRAM
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the industry's first 2-Gigabit (Gb) DDR2 SDRAM utilizing 80-nanometer (nm) process technology. The high densit ...
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Samsung Introduces 667MHz Mobile CPU for 3G Mobile Handheld Devices
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced mobile CPU with speeds of 667MHz. This mobile CPU is expected to enable diverse multimedia content in 3G mobile handheld devices such as smart ph ...
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Industry's First 60-Nanometer 8-Gigabit NAND Flash Memory
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today that it has developed the industry's first 60-nanometer (nm) 8-Gigabit (Gb) NAND Flash memory device for data st ...
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