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Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'
Feb 12, 2007 |
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Intel researchers have developed the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip not much larger than the size of a finger nail while using ...
Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry
Mar 23, 2007 |
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Silverbrook Research has developed the Memjet, a nanotech-fueled, consumer inkjet printer that can print sixty pages a minute for under $200. And it works.
3D Display Offers Glimpse of Future Media
Nov 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The 3D objects in the display box may at first look like a product of smoke-and-mirrors trickery. That impression would be about half right, as a rapidly spinning mirror is one important component ...
AMD Phenom II Quad Core Overclocked to 6.3Ghz
Nov 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has been showing off their soon to be released 45nm "Deneb" desktop chips which have been overclocked to 6.3Ghz. Unless you can get your hands on some liquid nitrogen, don´t expect to ...
Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Intel has just announced the first microchip that contains more than two billion transistors - tiny switches that together perform the calculations in computers. The chip, known as Tukwila, marks a milestone ...
Hitachi Achieves Nanotechnology Milestone for Quadrupling Terabyte Hard Drive
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive ...
Scientists Write Guide to Build Supercomputer from Sony Playstation 3
Dec 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brewed supercomputer that can reduce the cost of ...
Intel Producing First Processor Prototypes With New, Tiny 45 Nanometer Transistors
Jan 27, 2007 |
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In one of the biggest advancements in fundamental transistor design, Intel Corporation today revealed that it is using two dramatically new materials to build the insulating walls and switching gates of its ...
Researchers Set Speed Record for Silicon-Based Chips
Jun 20, 2006 |
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A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained ...
World's fastest transistor approaches goal of terahertz device
Dec 11, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have again broken their own speed record for the world’s fastest transistor. With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is approximately ...
'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC
Aug 28, 2008 |
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Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is roughly the size of a large die. However, the cube is actually a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji Corporation in Japan.
Supercomputer Sets New Performance Record
Jun 23, 2006 |
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The world’s fastest supercomputer, BlueGene/L, set a new performance standard on June 22, 2006. Housed at Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...
Reconstructed WW II Code Cracker Colossus Defeated
Nov 16, 2007 |
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A monumental achievment in reconstructing Colossus the first code cracker computer used by Allied forces in World War II. In a timed contest between Colossus and the modern PC Colossus was defeated by a modern ...
Two DVDs per second: a tiny chip processes data at extremely high speed
May 12, 2006 |
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Siemens researchers working in collaboration with specialists from Infineon have developed a receiver that converts Internet data from fiber-optic cables into electrical signals at breathtaking speed. At present, ...
Engineers building first space supercomputer
Oct 26, 2006 |
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HAL may soon be getting some company. But unlike the famous computer companion in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the first space-based supercomputer — so described because it will be by far the most powerful computer ...
