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Intelligence inside metal components

Intelligence inside metal components

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers ...


TSMC said China's top chip maker will settle a long-running dispute over theft of trade secrets

China chip maker to pay $200 mln to settle TSMC claims

Technology / Business

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets.


A delicate grip

A delicate grip

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar wafers for use in the production of photovoltaic systems are extremely sensitive. In a test and demonstration center research is being conducted on grippers to determine the best way ...


Growing online sales could lower prices, but also trim choices

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Shoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a University of Illinois business professor.


North America automobile sector bottom of 'world sustainability league'

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

North American car manufacturers have come bottom of the league in the largest ever international study of the global automobile sector's sustainability performance.


Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.


Scores of teams applied to compete in this year's decathlon, but only 20 were accepted

Changing focus leads Dell to close NC plant

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- A massive Dell Inc. computer assembly plant once seen as a job generator worthy of the promise of more than $300 million in state and local inducements will go dark in four months, a victim of new ...


Electrostatic surface cleaning

Electrostatic surface cleaning

Technology / Engineering

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

It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should ...


Dual simulation improves crash performance

Dual simulation improves crash performance

Technology / Engineering

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

Crash tests often produce startling results. A new simulation process which factors in deformation during production as well as preliminary damage can predict the results of a crash test more accurately than ...


TSMC Achieves 28nm SRAM Yield Breakthrough

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has become the first foundry not only to achieve 28nm functional 64Mb SRAM yield, but also to achieve it across all three 28nm nodes.


Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to ...


Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone

Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and ...


Modelling nano-worlds

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Modelling the fabrication processes for integrated circuits can slash production development time and costs by up to 40%. But as transistors, already at nano-scales, become ever smaller, researchers are modelling ...


Marine microbes creating green waves in industry

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technology designed to analyse large numbers of novel marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways to manufacture new drugs for conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, flu and other viruses, as well as ...


Sugarcane research aims to harvest green energy

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists based at UQ are working towards one of sustainable energy’s holy grails - harvesting the untapped potential of sugar cane.