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Fallen star SGI to sell most assets for $25M

Technology / Business

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Silicon Graphics Inc. will sell the remaining shreds of its fraying franchise to Rackable Systems Inc. for $25 million, punctuating the downfall of a former high-tech star that once dazzled investors and customers ...





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Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory, today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed ...


In Brief: Tvia video chip used in LG security DVR

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 28, 2006 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

LG Electronics will use a video processor designed by Silicon Valley's Tvia in its new line of digital video recorders for the security industry.


Lithium-ion Car Battery

Increasing Electric Car Battery Performance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that by replacing conventional graphite electrodes with silicon nanotube electrodes, lithium-ion batteries can store 10 times more charge.


Superior 3D Graphics for the Web a Step Closer

Superior 3D Graphics for the Web a Step Closer

Technology / Software

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of improved three-dimensional graphics in Web-based applications took a step forward recently, when programmers began building WebGL into the Mozilla Firefox nightly builds, ...


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Moore's Law Marches on at Intel

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 10

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as ...


SGI signified the go-go dot-com era

Technology / Business

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It looks like it's RIP for SGI.


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


AMD Details Next-Generation Platform for Notebook PCsAMD Details Next-Generation Platform for Notebook PCs

Electronics / Hardware

created May 18, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

At a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, AMD today officially disclosed more details of its next-generation open platform for notebook computing. Codenamed “Puma,” the platform is designed to deliver battery life, graphics ...


Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices

Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, ...


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 ...



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