http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Taiwanese researchers have developed a chip to treat backpain that is powered by mobile phone, a member of the team said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news178526728.html Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:46:05 EST news178526728 The analysis takes just a few minutes and the doctor knows straight-away whether there are any pathogens in the blood. An improved marker-free technique provides the basis for faster analysis, whether in a hospital or for mobile blood donations. http://www.physorg.com/news173611475.html Technology Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:40:01 EST news173611475 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle. http://www.physorg.com/news178186859.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:21:45 EST news178186859 (PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation has been performed on a photonic chip and it is major step forward in the quest to realise a super-powerful quantum computer. http://www.physorg.com/news171213314.html Physics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:15:49 EST news171213314 (AP) -- Apple Inc. says it has hired Intel Corp.'s top lawyer, Bruce Sewell, a day after the chip maker announced his departure. http://www.physorg.com/news172229675.html Technology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:34:48 EST news172229675 Samsung Electronics will lead a group of South Korean firms in jointly developing advanced semiconductors used for smartphones and digital televisions, officials said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news167905954.html Technology Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:12 EST news167905954 ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing chips. The test chip was based on an ARM 1176 processor and enables a direct comparison between SOI and bulk microprocessor implementations. The results confirm SOI technology is a viable alternative to traditional bulk process technology when designing low-power processors for high-performance consumer devices and mobile applications. http://www.physorg.com/news174221285.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:50:01 EST news174221285 Troubled German semi-conductor maker Infineon said Wednesday that it had managed to limit its quarterly loss but warned that full-year asset writedowns would be larger than expected. http://www.physorg.com/news168098900.html Technology Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:08:45 EST news168098900 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber coil, laser, and nanoscale-patterned silicon waveguide. http://www.physorg.com/news173362735.html Physics Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:19:51 EST news173362735 South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Thursday it will pay 1.3 billion dollars plus royalties to US wireless chip supplier Qualcomm under a new 15-year licensing deal. http://www.physorg.com/news176622718.html Technology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:20:05 EST news176622718 Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, connect his tiny devices to the external pumps and reservoirs delivering liquids into the system. While pondering this one day, he randomly picked up two magnets and began playing with them. As the magnets pulled apart and then snapped back together, Atencia realized that he had his solution. http://www.physorg.com/news177761689.html Physics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:02 EST news177761689 Taiwan's chip makers, powerful drivers of growth on the island, may have survived their worst crisis ever, but lacklustre sales and new rivals still make these risky times. http://www.physorg.com/news172300918.html Technology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:40:01 EST news172300918 (PhysOrg.com) -- Music, rather than electromechanical valves, can drive experimental samples through a lab-on-a-chip in a new system developed at the University of Michigan. This development could significantly simplify the process of conducting experiments in microfluidic devices. http://www.physorg.com/news167488557.html Chemistry Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:10:01 EST news167488557 Global chip sales fell a little more than 18 percent in July from the year-earlier period, but in a sign of improving demand, semiconductor revenue rose on a month-to-month basis for the fifth time in a row, an industry group said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news170963688.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:20:08 EST news170963688 It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical Electronics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany) have developed a new test process for cancer drugs. With the help of microchips, they can establish in the laboratory whether a patient's tumor cells will react to a given drug. This chip could help in future with the rapid identification of the most effective medication for the individual patient. http://www.physorg.com/news175412440.html Chemistry Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:50:02 EST news175412440