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Saving lots of computing capacity with a new algorithm
Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)
The control of modern infrastructure such as intelligent power grids needs lots of computing capacity. Scientists of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, ...
Harnessing error-prone chips
Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)
As transistors get smaller, they also grow less reliable. Increasing their operating voltage can help, but that means a corresponding increase in power consumpt...
DARPA Circuit Achieves Speeds of 1 Trillion Cycles per Second
Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)
Officials from Guinness World Records have recognized DARPA's Terahertz Electronics program for creating the fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit ev...
Molecular electronics process enables DNA-based computer circuitry
Oct 28, 2014 (SPX)
In a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, an international group of scientists announced the most significant breakthrough in a decade toward developing DN...
Precise and programmable biological circuits
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
A team led by ETH Professor Yaakov Benenson has developed several new components for biological circuits. These components are key building blocks for construct...
Quantum holograms as atomic scale memory keepsake
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
Russian scientists have developed a theoretical model of quantum memory for light, adapting the concept of a hologram to a quantum system. These findings from A...
Superconducting circuits, simplified
Oct 21, 2014 (SPX)
Computer chips with superconducting circuits - circuits with zero electrical resistance - would be 50 to 100 times as energy-efficient as today's chips, an attr...
Researchers develop world's thinnest electric generator
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity ...
Future computers could be built from magnetic 'tornadoes'
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
Magnetic materials form the basis of most hard disc drives as they are able to store data. A team from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering have...
Australian teams set new records for silicon quantum computing
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
Two research teams working in the same laboratories at UNSW Australia have found distinct solutions to a critical challenge that has held back the realisation o...
A novel platform for future spintronic technologies
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
Spintronics is an emerging field of technology where devices work by manipulating the spin of electrons rather than their charge. The field can bring significan...
Wider product lineup lifts Intel profit, revenues
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
Computer chip giant Intel reported a jump in quarterly profits Tuesday, as its newly diversified product lineup lifted revenues to record highs. The California ...
NIST quantum probe enhances electric field measurements
Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Michigan have demonstrated a technique based on the quantum prope...
New technique may enable silicon detectors for telecommunications
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) has demonstrated a breakthrough technique that offers the first tantalizing possibility o...
Quick-change materials break the silicon speed limit for computers
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available models, could be made possible by replac...
Future flexible electronics based on carbon nanotubes
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University have demonstrated a new method to improve the reliability and performance of tran...
Intel to buy stake in two Chinese firms
Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)
US semi-conductor maker Intel said Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in two Chinese cell phone part companies. The California firm said it would acquire a 20 p...
Oxides Discovered by CCNY Team Could Advance Memory Devices
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
The quest for the ultimate memory device for computing may have just taken an encouraging step forward. Researchers at The City College of New York led by chemi...
Toward optical chips
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Chips that use light, rather than electricity, to move data would consume much less power - and energy efficiency is a growing concern as chips' transistor coun...
New discovery could pave the way for spin-based computing
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Electricity and magnetism rule our digital world. Semiconductors process electrical information, while magnetic materials enable long-term data storage. A Unive...
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