Search results for processor
Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...
Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge
Dec 03, 2009 |
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In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...
AT&T to release cellphone with optional projector
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 01, 2009 |
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If cellphones with built-in video projectors are going to take the country by storm, then Dallas will be at the eye of the hurricane.
Selling chip makers on optical computing
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Turning heat to electricity... efficiently
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way ...
Review: Netbooks meet luxury in ultra-light Sony
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Netbooks have been a hit among laptop buyers because they're cheap and they're easy to carry. Now there's the option to pay a lot more and get a lot less - a lot less weight, that is.
Intel hit with more antitrust charges in FTC suit
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission piled on new antitrust charges against Intel Corp. on Wednesday, seeking to end what it described as a decade of illegal sales tactics that have crippled rivals and kept ...
3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Not so long ago our computers had a single core which had to be boosted for performance - making each machine into a great central heating system. Beyond 85° C, however, electronic components become unstable. ...
Stanford researchers develop the next generation of retinal implants
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Stanford researchers has developed a new generation of retinal implants that aims to provide higher resolution and make artificial vision more natural.
Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 07, 2009 |
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The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...
Review: Two new 3-D laptops still feel shallow
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In its search for another technology to excite us, the consumer electronics industry is reaching deep - into the third dimension. The big push for 3-D TV won't happen until next year, but already ...
Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...
Study sheds light on brain's fear processing center
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Breathing carbon dioxide can trigger panic attacks, but the biological reason for this effect has not been understood. A new study by University of Iowa researchers shows that carbon dioxide increases brain acidity, which ...
Gadgets: Great gadgets, as a gift or not
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
8 hours ago |
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Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I have just couldn't find a home for.
Nvidia, AMD shares jump after Intel scraps chip
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies.
