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Cellphone powers back pain chip in Taiwan

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Taiwanese researchers have developed a chip to treat backpain that is powered by mobile phone, a member of the team said Friday.


Blood diagnosis -- chip-based and mobile

Blood diagnosis -- chip-based and mobile

Technology / Engineering

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

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 ...


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Intel wants a chip implant in your brain

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 49

(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.


First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 10

(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 ...


Apple hires Intel's top lawyer

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Apple Inc. says it has hired Intel Corp.'s top lawyer, Bruce Sewell, a day after the chip maker announced his departure.


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SKorean firms to jointly develop new chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics will lead a group of South Korean firms in jointly developing advanced semiconductors used for smartphones and digital televisions, officials said Monday.


ARM Announces 45nm SOI Test Chip Results That Demonstrate 40 Percent Power Savings Over Bulk Process

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

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 ...


Infineon said it had managed to limit its quarterly loss but warned that full-year asset writedowns would be larger

Chip maker Infineon trims loss, sees larger writedowns

Technology / Business

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.


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Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(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 ...


Samsung to pay Qualcomm 1.3 bln dlrs in new licensing deal

Technology / Business

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.


Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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, ...


Taiwan's chip makers, powerful drivers of growth on the island, still face risky times.

Taiwan's chip makers still face dangers: analysts

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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.


Music is the engine of new lab-on-a-chip device (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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 ...


Chips' year-over-year sales fall 18 percent in July, SIA says

Technology / Business

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...