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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 ...
NASA expands high-end computing system for climate simulation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., made available to scientists in August the first unit of an expanded high-end computing system that will serve as the centerpiece of a new climate simulation ...
A New Path of Conduction for Future Electronics
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory made headlines when they revealed experimental evidence of a topological insulator: a material that could revolutionize computer ...
Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.
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Intel Launches Core i7 -- Fastest Processor on the Planet
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Intel Corporation introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ...
Intel Announces Intel Atom Brand for New Family of Low-Power Processors
Mar 03, 2008 |
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The Intel Atom processor will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers ...
New 167-processor chip is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient
Apr 22, 2009 |
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A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, ...
Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a ...
Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 01, 2008 |
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As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a system that lets ...
STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up to Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment
Oct 28, 2009 |
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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 ...
Next-generation, high-performance processor unveiled
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose computer processor, which has the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second, has been designed and built by a team of computer scientists ...
New project aims to boost performance on every chip
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 07, 2009 |
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as part of its Architecture Aware Compiler Environment Program, has awarded Rice University $16 million to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance ...
Review: $500 Samsung netbook sports new processor
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Intel Corp. has had a near lock on supplying processors for netbooks - the cheap, tiny laptops that are the biggest hit in the computer market these days. Now there's an alternative from a Taiwanese ...
Scientists create first electronic quantum processor
Jun 28, 2009 |
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A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.
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