News tagged with manufacturing
Intel to produce 32nm chips
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer chip-maker, said Wednesday that it has developed a manufacturing process that shrinks the circuitry in a chip to just 32 nanometers.
Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...
Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(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 ...
AMD Planning 16-Core Server Chip For 2011 Release
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD is in the process of designing a server chip with up to 16-cores. Code named Interlagos, the server chip will contain between 12 and 16 cores and will be available in 2011.
New method could lead to narrower chip patterns
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...
The Future of Car Manufacturing? Sticky 'Velcro' Car Parts
Aug 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It may sound improbable but plastic car parts could one day be joined together like Velcro, and peeled apart when it comes to recycling or disposal.
A fabric with green sheen: Fast-growing bamboo offers more eco-friendly cloth
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Anne Kai, of Lacey, Wash., owns a small, hand-dyed fabric business with an environmental slant.
IBM Alliance Announces Availability of Advanced 28-Nanometer, Low-Power Semiconductor Technology
Apr 20, 2009 |
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IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, and STMicroelectronics have defined and are jointly developing a 28-nanometer, high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power bulk ...
North America automobile sector bottom of 'world sustainability league'
Oct 30, 2009 |
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North American car manufacturers have come bottom of the league in the largest ever international study of the global automobile sector's sustainability performance.
Engineers crack ceramics production obstacle
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of Leicester have invented a new technique in the manufacture of ceramics that has the potential to save the industry time and costs while reducing wastage.
GE to open advanced tech center in Michigan
Jun 26, 2009 |
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General Electric announced plans Friday to open an "advanced manufacturing technology and software center" in Michigan that could create more than 1,100 job in the coming years.
New tool for 'right first time' drug manufacture
Sep 22, 2008 |
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A technology which provides high quality images of the crystallisation process marks the next step towards a 'right first time' approach to drug manufacture, according to engineers at the University of Leeds.
'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML on Wednesday announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions.
Manufacturing inefficiency: Study sees 'alarming' use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of 20 major manufacturing processes.
