Search results for SOC:

results timeline

Refine search   


Subaru Telescope Spots Strange Spin

Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Tilted Extrasolar Planet

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Astronomers have found that the extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. Studying such planets is important in understanding the diversity of planetary systems and assessing current ...


Porphyrin Dimers Increase Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Porphyrin Dimers Increase Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins are most commonly thought of as the pigment in red blood cells, but now scientists have found that porphyrins can also be used to increase the efficiency of an inexpensive type ...


STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up to Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM, announced today that ST has adopted the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, in addition to the Mali-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box ...


ARM Delivers The Internet Everywhere With Most Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

ARM Introduces New Cortex-A5 Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ARM today announces the launch of the ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the smallest, lowest power ARM multicore processor capable of delivering the Internet to the widest possible range of ...


bee

Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.


Silicon Image Introduces New 18 MegaPixel Camera Processor IP Core

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Silicon Image today introduced the camerIC-18, the newest member of its family of camerIC camera processor IP cores.


Killer bees may increase food supplies for native bees

Killer bees may increase food supplies for native bees

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aggressive African bees were accidentally released in Brazil in 1957. As "killer bees" spread northward, David Roubik, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, began a 17-year study ...


Intel's Atom CE4100 SoC

Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...


IBM Announces Highest Performance Embedded Processor for System-on-Chip Designs

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.


Study says West Midlands bearing brunt of recession and will take longest to recover

Study says West Midlands bearing brunt of recession and will take longest to recover

Other Sciences / Economics

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research by the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research shows that says West  Midlands is bearing brunt of recession in the UK and is the region that will take longest to recover.


Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...


Extinct Mammal Used its 'Sweet Spot' to Club Rivals

Extinct Mammal Used its 'Sweet Spot' to Club Rivals

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Uruguay studying extinct mammals called glyptodonts have discovered they used a "sweet spot" in their tails, just like baseball players use the center of percussion (CP), or ...


New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- To use hydrogen as a clean energy source, some engineers want to pack hydrogen into a larger molecule, rather than compressing the gas into a tank. A gas flows easily out of a tank, but getting ...


Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually

Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Hungry, sexual organisms replaced well-fed, clonal organisms in the Caribbean Sea as the Isthmus of Panama arose, separating the Caribbean from the Pacific, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...


Cardiac CT is more cost effective when managing low-risk patients with chest pain

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of cardiac CT for low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency department, instead of the traditional standard of care (SOC) workup, may reduce a patient’s length of stay and hospital charges, according to a study ...