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Samsung Develops Advanced Packaging Technology to Achieve a 0.6mm-thick 8-chip Package

Samsung Develops Advanced Packaging Technology to Achieve a 0.6mm-thick 8-chip Package

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world's thinnest multi-die package, one that measures a mere 0.6mm in height. Designed initially for 32 gigabyte (GB) densities, the new memory ...


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.


Compressing photonic signals for greater bandwidth

Compressing photonic signals for greater bandwidth

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Cornell researchers have developed an ingenious method to time-compress optical signals. The process could enable optical communication systems to carry many more bits per second or could also be used to generate ...


Nanostructured Integrated Circuit Detects Type and Severity of Cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of investigators from the University of Toronto have used nanomaterials to develop an inexpensive microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that ...


Digital 'plaster' for monitoring vital signs undergoes first clinical trials

Digital 'plaster' for monitoring vital signs undergoes first clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A wireless digital 'plaster' that can monitor vital signs continuously and remotely is being tried out with patients and healthy volunteers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in a new clinical trial ...


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 ...


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 ...


Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses

Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual ...


Touch screen gamble: which technology to use

Technology / Hi Tech

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

Prompted partly by the iPhone's phenomenal popularity, consumers are demanding and likely to get a wider range of touch screens on many more electronic devices.


Bacterium Identified as Potato Disease Culprit

Bacterium Identified as Potato Disease Culprit

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies tying a new species of Candidatus Liberibacter bacteria to zebra chip (ZC) disease in potato should speed efforts to better protect the tuber crop from costly outbreaks.


Intel profit falls but outlook upbeat, stock jumps (AP)

Intel stokes hopes for PC recovery

Technology / Business

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Intel Corp. has been asserting for months that the personal computer business is rebounding from its deepest slump in nearly a decade. Its stock jumped late Tuesday on signs things are picking up ...


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.


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Upgrade to Windows 7? It all depends...

Technology / Software

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (17) | comments 3

With Windows 7 scheduled for release Oct. 22, the question many readers will be asking is, "Should I upgrade?" The answer depends on your circumstances.


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 ...


Researchers develop new lab-on-a-chip technique

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Toronto have developed a new "lab-on-a-chip" technique that analyses tiny samples of blood and breast tissue to identify women at risk of breast cancer much more quickly than ever before.