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Barrett: No end in sight for Moore's Law
Insight Moore's Law will boost chip abilities for many years to come, Intel CEO Craig Barrett predicted on Tuesday.
Tags: Processors
Fujitsu Siemens eyes nanotech for chips
News With silicon being pushed to its limits, some see carbon nanotubes as the future of chips.
Tags: Nanotechnology
Can nanotubes keep PCs cool?
News Intel hopes so, as the chipmaker is conducting research with nanotechnology provider Zyvex to see if carbon nanotubes can help dissipate the pent-up heat inside PCs.
Scientists use virus to help build battery
News Researchers have used a genetically-modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars.
Tags: Components, Battery, Carbon Nanotube, Nanotube, carbon nanotube network, biology, Power supplies, surge suppression, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, virus, scientist
Reinventing the lightbulb, with nanotubes
News Researchers create a prototype bulb with a carbon nanotube in place of the standard tungsten filament. It uses less power, burns brighter and could lead to the first major overhaul in bulb design in a century.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology
Nano memory gets big chip backer
News Major semiconductor maker signs deal to use nanotube-based memory technology from Nantero, just weeks after LSI Logic licensed it.
Nanotubes break semiconducting record
News Semiconducting carbon nanotubes are significantly better at conducting electricity at room temperature than any other known material, according to recent tests at the University of Maryland.
Intel sketches out nanotechnology road map
News The firm is planning new ways to increase chip speed. Could "spintronics" replace silicon-based technology?
Tags: Nanotechnology
Tiny tubes mean big chip advances
News IBM researchers have achieved a breakthrough the company says will help pave the way for the next era in the evolution of the microprocessor--beyond silicon.
IBM breakthrough: Nanotubes
News IBM researchers have achieved a breakthrough; the company says will help pave the way for the next era in the evolution of the microprocessor--beyond silicon.
IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips
News Scientists are conducting research to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or perform calculations.
Tags: Processors, R&D, Nanotechnology
Squeezing light from nanotubes
News Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fiber-optic technology.
Scientists team up for nanotube breakthrough
News Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and to test the nanotubes--two significant steps that could help pave the way for carbon chips.
Tags: Processors
Intel eyes nanotubes for future chips
News As processor innards shrink, carbon nanotubes could help chipmakers overcome a looming design challenge.
Tags: Processors
Carbon nanotechnologies companies merge
News Nanotubes and nanoballs. Patents for both are now united in one company.
Tags: Nanotechnology
