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Near-atomically flat silicon could help pave the way to new chemical sensors
Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)
Silicon is the workhorse of the electronics industry, serving as the base material for the tiny transistors that make it possible for digital clocks to tick and...
Japan's Renesas books $1.18 bn quarterly loss
Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)
Renesas Electronics on Monday posted a $1.18 billion loss in its fiscal second quarter owing to huge restructuring costs at the troubled Japanese microchip make...
New finding could pave way to faster, smaller electronics
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
University of California, Davis, researchers for the first time have looked inside gallium manganese arsenide, a type of material known as a "dilute magnetic se...
Quantum computing with recycled particles
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
A research team from the University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) have brought the reality of a quantum computer one step closer by experiment...
Boeing, Samsung Electronics to Explore Joint Technology Research and Development
Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing and Samsung Electronics has announced that they will explore working together to research and develop technologies that improve in-flight entertainment a...
Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing
Oct 22, 2012 (SPX)
In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow the quick and reliable transfer of quantu...
Optical vortices on a chip
Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)
An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol and the Universities of Glasgow (UK) and Sun Yat-sen and Fudan in China, have d...
Developing the next generation of microsensors
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
Imagine navigating through a grocery store with your cell phone. As you turn down the bread aisle, ads and coupons for hot dog buns and English muffins pop up o...
Bus service for qubits
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
Qubit-based computing exploiting spooky quantum effects like entanglement and superposition will speed up factoring and searching calculations far above what ca...
ORNL study confirms magnetic properties of silicon nano-ribbons
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
Nano-ribbons of silicon configured so the atoms resemble chicken wire could hold the key to ultrahigh density data storage and information processing systems of...
ASML microchips says paying 1.95 bn euros for US Cymer
Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)
Dutch microchip manufacturing equipment maker ASML said on Wednesday it was acquiring US company Cymer for 1.95 billion euros to develop equipment for making th...
Intel profits slow, but top lowered estimates
Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)
US chip giant Intel Corp. on Tuesday reported a decline in profits, reflecting the shift by consumers to newer mobile devices, but managed to beat lowered expec...
Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics
Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)
Spintronic technology, in which data is processed on the basis of electron "spin" rather than charge, promises to revolutionize the computing industry with smal...
Science: Quantum Oscillator Responds to Pressure
Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)
In the far future, superconducting quantum bits might serve as components of high-performance computers. Today already do they help better understand the struct...
Intel profits slide, outlook weak as woes continue
Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)
Intel Corp. on Thursday reported falling profits for the fourth quarter and full year 2012, and offered a disappointing outlook in another sign of the chip gian...
Invisibility could be a key to better electronics
Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)
A new approach that allows objects to become "invisible" has now been applied to an entirely different area: letting particles "hide" from passing electrons, wh...
A complex logic circuit made from bacterial genes
Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)
By force of habit we tend to assume computers are made of silicon, but there is actually no necessary connection between the machine and the material. All that ...
Japan Inc to save Renesas for $2.5 bn: report
Oct 13, 2012 (AFP)
Japan's state-backed turnaround fund and leading domestic manufacturers will invest 200 billion yen ($2.55 billion) in troubled chipmaker Renesas Electronics, a...
Organic solar cells with high electric potential for portable electronics
Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)
A new breakthrough in solar technology means portable electronic devices such as e-book readers could soon be re-charged on the move in low light levels and par...
MIT team builds most complex synthetic biology circuit yet
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
Using genes as interchangeable parts, synthetic biologists design cellular circuits that can perform new functions, such as sensing environmental conditions. Ho...
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