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Observers wary of 'truce' between Intel, AMD

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, Silicon Valley's version of the long-squabbling Hatfields and McCoys, really get along?


Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...


Intel settles AMD claims but isn't off the hook (AP)

Intel settles AMD claims but isn't off the hook

Technology / Business

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(AP) -- Intel Corp. is paying Silicon Valley rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. $1.25 billion to squash a legal battle over Intel's sales tactics, a rift that led to antitrust charges against Intel in several ...


Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Collaborative users from the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, have found a controllable way to modify the surfaces ...


Report: AMD ex-CEO said linked to Galleon case

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is "thoroughly reviewing" published reports fingering former chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz as the AMD executive who gave confidential company information to a defendant in the ...


AMD sales better than expected, CPU demand rises (AP)

AMD sales better than expected, CPU demand rises

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lost money in the third quarter but said Thursday that sales were stronger than expected, adding to mounting evidence that consumer spending is fueling a turnaround in ...


Dying from dementia: NEJM editorial advocates for palliative care

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A growing number of older adults are dying from dementia. In an editorial in the October 15, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Greg Sachs, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Division of Genera ...


Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...


Intel CEO: PC sales could rise in 2009

Technology / Business

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The worldwide personal-computer market is pulling out of its slump quickly and could defy predictions by growing this year, Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday.


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EU publishes e-mails to back case against Intel (Update)

Technology / Business

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(AP) -- The European Union on Monday published e-mail excerpts from computer makers and Intel Corp. to show that Intel pressured chip buyers into choosing Intel over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.


Intel: $1.4B EU monopoly fine based on mistakes

Technology / Business

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Intel Corp. is claiming in court documents that European Union regulators made serious mistakes in levying a record euro1.06 billion ($1.45 billion) fine for monopoly abuse last May.


Rebirth of an icon: Hubble's first images since Servicing Mission 4

Rebirth of an icon: Hubble's first images since Servicing Mission 4

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration, with the release of observations from four of its six ...


Graphics chips speed up medical imaging

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Beyond just jazzing up video games, one of the growing array of applications being found for the powerful graphics-oriented chips that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices sell is in speeding up medical imaging, which can be ...


Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Collagen Measured in Soft Tissues

Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Collagen Measured in Soft Tissues

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Coherent X-ray Diffraction patterns of collagen in soft tissues have been measured for the first time by Dr Felisa Berenguer at the London Centre for Nanotechnology with her colleagues.


Silk-based optical waveguides meet biomedical needs

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

There is a growing need for biocompatible photonic components for biomedical applications - from in vivo glucose monitoring to detecting harmful viruses or the telltale markers of Alzheimer's. Optical waveguides are of ...