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AMD Planning 16-Core Server Chip For 2011 Release

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6

(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.


The world's biggest chip maker Intel rolled out a line of "revolutionary" chips designed as high-performance engines

Intel launches high-performance chips for workstations

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The world's biggest chip maker Intel rolled out a line of "revolutionary" chips designed as high-performance engines for datacenters, work stations and research computers.


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Intel's Light Peak Will Replace Copper Wires

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new optical cable that will be able to transfer data, between electrical devices, starting at speeds of 10 ...


Roads not taken disappear more quickly than we realize

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 17, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Researchers have identified a key reason why people make mistakes when they try to predict what they will like. When predicting how much we will enjoy a future experience, people tend to compare it to its alternatives—that ...


Intel, Nokia work on new pocket computer project

Technology / Business

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Intel Corp. and Nokia Corp. said Tuesday they're joining forces to build better technology for smart phones and other mobile Internet devices.


Climate change poker: The barriers which are preventing a global agreement

Climate change poker: The barriers which are preventing a global agreement

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 5

As the world's environment ministers, government officials, diplomats and campaigners prepare to attend the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 to unite in the battle against climate change in ...


First 3-D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (78) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running ...


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Moore's Law Marches on at Intel

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 10

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as ...


RFIDs transmit through metal

RFIDs transmit through metal

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metal efficiently blocks radiation, such as that emitted by RFID chips - small data storage units that are integrated in various objects and transmit their information to a reading device. ...


Selling chip makers on optical computing

Selling chip makers on optical computing

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...


Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'

Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.


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Scientists Develop First Chip-Scale Thermoelectric Cooler

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the chip. ...


Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips

Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 2

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less ...


Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography

Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (33) | comments 2

A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor ...


Idle Farmlands Could Become Profitable Carbon Storage Banks

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Michigan's recently enacted renewable energy portfolio legislation sets new requirements for green energy production in the State. Michigan policymakers believe energy plantations could be a major source ...