Nanotechnology
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Moore's Law will end 'commodity capitalism'
News Computers will eventually wipe out bean-counting jobs and the middlemen, so economies have to be knowledge-based to survive, says physics professor.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, Technology, Law, Chip, Singapore, Cloud Computing, Computer, City University, sales agent
Start-ups to get silicon shuttle services
News Service for budding Asian integrated circuit designers promises these companies lower costs and faster turnaround time.
Tags: Nanotechnology, Processors, Integrated Circuit, Semiconductor, Europe, remote access, Silicon, Environment, Fujitsu Ltd., partnership
IBM makes the world its lab
News Convincing countries and companies around the world of need to innovate during the economic downturn, has resulted in new cutting-edge partnerships for Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., University, Chip, Samuel J. Palmisano, intellectual property, Switzerland, China Telecom, China, strategy
IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
News Leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. Human brain could be just a decade away.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Computer, DARPA, financial system, financial
IBM's 35 atoms and the rise of nanotech
News Don Eigler moved a single atom two decades ago. Since then, he and IBM have taken new steps in pursuing a dream of compact, power-efficient computing.
Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Electronics, Carbon Nanotube, Manufacturing, Atom, vision, knowledge, circuitry
IBM atomic probe gets newly sensitive touch
News Vendor's atomic force microscope can distinguish charged gold atoms from neutral ones. Big Blue hopes that will help with nanocomputing and solar energy research.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Electronics, Atom, solar cell, researcher, Holy Grail, Zurich
IBM, ETH Zurich to build joint nanotech research lab
News The Swiss university and chipmaker's joint US$90 million investment marks a major move forward for industry and academic collaboration.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Small And Medium Enterprise, Geothermal Energy, Environment, intellectual property, Switzerland, ETH Zurich, researcher
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News The company's tech increases the power of the sun's rays by a factor of 10, using liquid metal to transfer the resulting heat from solar cells.
Tags: Green IT, Innovation, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Photovoltaics, Cell, Semiconductor, solar cell, researcher, power generation
Nanotech to solve global warming by 2028
News World's dependency on fossil fuels will end, as nanotech will enable renewable sources such as solar to fully meet global energy needs by 2028, says inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Tags: Nanotechnology, Green IT, Nanotechnology, Geothermal Energy, solar panel, London, Global Warming, Silicon.com, Earth, exclusive interview
IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
News Initiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency.
Tags: Supercomputing, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Tool, DARPA, Computer, News.com, blog
iPhone Nano cases appear online
News Another indication that Apple could be readying a smaller iPhone Nano appeared Monday in the form of a product listing on a case manufacturer's Web site.
Tags: Nanotechnology, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, XSKN, 3G, News.com, Apple iPhone, blog, Smart phones
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nanoscale transistors.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, NIST, Chip, Flaw, transistor, theory, researcher, scientist, IEEE
IBM microscope 100 million times stronger than MRI
News IBM Research has built a new nanoscale microscope capable of creating images with 100 million times finer resolution than existing MRI technology.
Tags: Hardware, Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Microscope, hydrogen, magnetic field, tobacco, YouTube Inc., YouTube Video
One step closer to age of nanowire transistors?
News IBM-Purdue researchers say nanowires may work in making PCs, consumer electronics because they form the same way every time.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Electronics, Manufacturing, Chip, Purdue University, Particle, Catalyst, Silicon, Gordon Moore
Australian scientists push transistor barrier
News Researchers from the Center for Quantum Computing Technology, have built a wire only three atoms thick, opening the possibility of new chip architectures.
Tags: Nanotechnology, Processors, IBM Corp., Atom, Semiconductor, Computer, University of New South Wales, transistor, program manager, researcher
