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UMC Announces Industry's First 28nm SRAMs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has manufactured the foundry industry's first fully functional 28nm SRAM chips. The chips are based on UMC's independently developed low-leakage (LL) process ...





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Metal composition hold key to identity of modern sculptures

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do you tell when, where and how a Picasso or a Matisse sculpture was cast? Could bronze sculptures have their very own DNA?


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Intel denies seeking to derail AMD spin-off

Technology / Business

created Jan 25, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intel Corp. on Friday fired back at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., denying its rival's charge that Intel was trying to derail a planned spinoff.


UMC's Embedded DRAM, URAM Proven in 65nm Customer Silicon

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has produced functional 65nm customer products incorporating URAM, the company's patented embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology.


A one-stop shop for minimal information standards

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created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

More than 20 grass-roots standardisation groups, led by scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), have combined forces to form the "Minimum Information about ...


Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within ...


Environmental exposures may damage DNA in as few as three days

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Exposure to particulate matter has been recognized as a contributing factor to lung cancer development for some time, but a new study indicates inhalation of certain particulates can actually cause some genes to become reprogrammed, ...


More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals

More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering ...


Berkeley Lab Dedicates the Molecular Foundry

Berkeley Lab Dedicates the Molecular Foundry

Nanotechnology /

created Apr 03, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Traditionally, a foundry has been a place where molded objects are made. The term comes from “founding,” the act of pouring a liquid material into a mold and allowing it to solidify. Since the introduction ...


New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry

New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale. These "nano-colorsorter" devices act as antennae to focus and sort light ...


A Better Way to Make Nanotubes

A Better Way to Make Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound synthesized for the first time by Berkeley Lab scientists could help to push nanotechnology out of the lab and into faster electronic devices, more powerful sensors, and other advanced ...



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