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. Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures while employing chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) techniques which are in widespread use in semiconductor manufacturing. http://www.physorg.com/news178552799.html Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:00:59 EST news178552799 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan. http://www.physorg.com/news177953946.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:06 EST news177953946 NEC Corp. says it has developed the country's first software that automatically controls power consumption by personal computers in accordance with the patterns of its user's PC activity. http://www.physorg.com/news176731923.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:50:01 EST news176731923 (PhysOrg.com) -- Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down. http://www.physorg.com/news176107396.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:10:01 EST news176107396 Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types. http://www.physorg.com/news176064260.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:09:31 EST news176064260 (PhysOrg.com) -- For people fed up with their mobile telephone or iPod batteries running out, Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Thursday the launch of a portable fuel-cell that can power up digital gadgets on the move. http://www.physorg.com/news175412573.html Technology Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:44:51 EST news175412573 (PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family. http://www.physorg.com/news175267985.html Electronics Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:33:40 EST news175267985 Royal Philips Electronics today announced that its scientists have developed a highly innovative digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon (the basic quantum unit of light) counting in a wide range of applications where ultra-low light levels need to be measured. http://www.physorg.com/news174240378.html Physics Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:13:08 EST news174240378 Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed the industry's first 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM. http://www.physorg.com/news173430536.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:10:01 EST news173430536 Elpida Memory today announced that it has completed development of a Cu-TSV (Through Silicon Via) multi-layer 8-Gigabit DRAM. http://www.physorg.com/news170952515.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:00:02 EST news170952515 (PhysOrg.com) -- Modelling the fabrication processes for integrated circuits can slash production development time and costs by up to 40%. But as transistors, already at nano-scales, become ever smaller, researchers are modelling new worlds. Over the past seven years, the microprocessors in everyday electronic equipment have delivered astonishing advances in speed while reducing power consumption per transistor. http://www.physorg.com/news169134954.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:10:01 EST news169134954 (PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful new radio technologies that promise blisteringly fast WiFi have been given a boost by a team of European researchers` cutting-edge work on miniscule microchips. http://www.physorg.com/news168099929.html Technology Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:50:01 EST news168099929 Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of a new structure for gallium-nitride high electron-mobility transistors (GaN)(HEMT) that can minimize power loss in power supplies, thus enabling reduced power consumption of electronic equipment such as IT hardware and home electronics. http://www.physorg.com/news165081213.html Technology Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:54:04 EST news165081213 In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today`s cooling technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news164996567.html Electronics Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:23:27 EST news164996567 Today at Computex, Intel Corporation introduced four new processors, including a low-power version and a value chipset, to usher in mainstream "ultra-thin" laptops. http://www.physorg.com/news163177451.html Electronics Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:04:41 EST news163177451 Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news160312653.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:18:00 EST news160312653 (PhysOrg.com) -- AMD is in the process of designing a server chip with up to 16-cores. Code named Interlagos, the server chip will contain between 12 and 16 cores and will be available in 2011. http://www.physorg.com/news160045626.html Electronics Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:07:51 EST news160045626 (PhysOrg.com) -- Technology is struggling to meet demands for high-performance, specialised computing systems. A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable chip that is both efficient and flexible. http://www.physorg.com/news159548117.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:55:48 EST news159548117 Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand. http://www.physorg.com/news159537248.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:54:43 EST news159537248 Samsung Electronics today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more power efficient by supporting a capacity up to 1.5TB with 3 disks. http://www.physorg.com/news155843380.html Electronics Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:50:35 EST news155843380 Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume. http://www.physorg.com/news155495636.html Technology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:14:18 EST news155495636 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wish you could you power your home's electrical appliances with the energy you generate on your exercise bike? A new concept called an "inlet outlet" could allow homeowners to put power from kinetic household activities - such as exercise equipment - back into the grid through a wall socket, helping to lower electricity bills. Basically, the inlet outlet would be the opposite of a typical wall outlet. http://www.physorg.com/news155231498.html Technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:52:07 EST news155231498 (PhysOrg.com) -- As researchers strive to increase the density and functionality of circuit elements onto computer chips, one newer option they have is a memory resistor (or `memristor`), the fourth passive circuit element. First predicted to exist in 1971 and fabricated in 2008, memristors are two-terminal devices that change their resistance in response to the total amount of current flowing through them. http://www.physorg.com/news154865950.html Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:19:55 EST news154865950 Toshiba Corporation today announced the prototype of a new FeRAM -- Ferroelectric Random Access Memory -- that redefines industry benchmarks for density and operating speed. The new chip realizes storage of 128-megabits and read and write speeds of 1.6-gigabytes a second, the most advanced combination of performance and density yet achieved. Full details of the new FeRAM will be presented this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2009 (ISSCC2009) in San Francisco, USA. http://www.physorg.com/news153420638.html Technology Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:52:21 EST news153420638 At this week`s International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave the way to second-generation 60GHz radios by 2010 which will rely solely on plain CMOS, true one-chip solutions. IMEC also demonstrated multi-gigabit per second wireless communication with its 60GHz module that integrates IMEC proprietary antenna and antenna interface with its 45nm multiple antenna RF front-end chip. http://www.physorg.com/news153408987.html Technology Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:37:01 EST news153408987 (PhysOrg.com) -- With consumers being more cost sensitive, TV manufactures are coming out with innovative ways to cut power consumption on their television sets. Even when a television set is turned off, they are still consuming a small amount of electricity. http://www.physorg.com/news151762863.html Electronics Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:21:32 EST news151762863 (PhysOrg.com) -- 'Smart' fridges that run on renewable electricity and are capable of negotiating the most energy efficient way to keep food cold have been developed by researchers from CSIRO`s Energy Transformed Flagship. http://www.physorg.com/news151076187.html Technology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:36:27 EST news151076187 NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the operation of a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop (MFF). http://www.physorg.com/news150394868.html Technology Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:21:08 EST news150394868 It seems so easy in the IBM commercial. An underling explains to her pessimistic boss how their company will save millions of dollars with "green" technology. "Where do I sign?" he asks, as happy music erupts and cartoon animals dance across the screen. http://www.physorg.com/news149952823.html Technology Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:33:43 EST news149952823 A surge in energy consumption resulting from increased uptake of broadband will further slow Australia's Internet, says University of Melbourne research to be presented this week at the Symposium on Sustainability of the Internet and ICT. http://www.physorg.com/news146833360.html Technology Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:02:40 EST news146833360