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Moore's Law will end 'commodity capitalism'

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.

Tuesday, October 21 2008 06:30 PM

Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, Technology, Law, Chip, Singapore, Cloud Computing, Computer, City University, sales agent


Start-ups to get silicon shuttle services

Start-ups to get silicon shuttle services

News Service for budding Asian integrated circuit designers promises these companies lower costs and faster turnaround time.

Friday, September 26 2008 04:34 PM

Tags: Nanotechnology, Processors, Integrated Circuit, Semiconductor, Europe, remote access, Silicon, Environment, Fujitsu Ltd., partnership


IBM makes the world its lab

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.

Monday, August 31 2009 10:46 AM

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.

Thursday, November 19 2009 10:40 AM

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.

Tuesday, September 29 2009 10:08 AM

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.

Friday, June 12 2009 11:54 AM

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.

Wednesday, June 25 2008 09:53 PM

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.

Tuesday, May 27 2008 09:43 AM

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.

Friday, November 21 2008 10:31 AM

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.

Friday, November 21 2008 03:40 AM

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.

Tuesday, December 23 2008 07:18 AM

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.

Friday, May 29 2009 01:00 PM

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.

Tuesday, January 13 2009 09:27 AM

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.

Monday, November 17 2008 11:00 AM

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.

Wednesday, June 25 2008 09:29 PM

Tags: Nanotechnology, Processors, IBM Corp., Atom, Semiconductor, Computer, University of New South Wales, transistor, program manager, researcher


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