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Nvidia, AMD shares jump after Intel scraps chip

Technology / Business

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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.


Gift Guide: Touch and Windows 7 in fresh PC lineup (AP)

Gift Guide: Touch and Windows 7 in fresh PC lineup

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- This holiday season is a great time to buy a PC. There's a nice new version of Windows out, and computer manufacturers are adding interesting new technologies. Here's a guide to what's fresh in PCs, ...


NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...


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 ...





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Consumers to benefit from advances in chip design

Technology / Hi Tech

created 9 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Consumers will be able to fix their automobiles while the car gives step-by-step advice, attack their ailments by making computer models of various treatments to find the best one, and duck into virtual fitting rooms to try ...


New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI

New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that's what the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors ...


New research could advance research field critical to personalized medicine

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It's the ultimate goal in the treatment of cancer: tailoring a person's therapy based on his or her genetic makeup. While a lofty goal, scientists are steadily moving forward, rapidly exploiting new technologies. Researchers ...


Researchers Create New Way To Locate Big Genetic Variants

Biology / Biotechnology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants.


Genomic toggle switches divide autoimmune diseases into distinct clusters

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genomic switches can predispose an individual to one set of autoimmune disorders but protect the same person against another set of them, scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have found.


Do computers understand art?

Do computers understand art?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition ...


Adjusting acidity with impunity

Adjusting acidity with impunity

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technique ...


Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Technology / Energy

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used.


Hardware-accelerated global illumination by image space photon mapping

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Research presented in a paper by Morgan McGuire, assistant professor of computer science at Williams College, and co-author Dr. David Luebke of NVIDIA, introduces a new algorithm to improve computer graphics for video games.


German chip maker Infineon raises quarterly sales target

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

Long-suffering German semi-conductor maker Infineon raised its quarterly sales target Tuesday owing to stronger demand from clients in the automotive and energy sectors.



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