Silicon Chip
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Chip pioneer caught up in Bluetooth patent case
News Cambridge Silicon Radio vows to fight claims that its Bluetooth chips violate a U.S. patent.
Xerox: Let everyone have fiber
News The company says its new chip will greatly diminish the cost of connecting homes and offices to fiber cables in the ground.
Start-up redesigns fuel cells
News U.S.-based Neah Power Systems says it can make fuel cells out of silicon, a shift that would boost their performance while making them easier to manufacture.
Xerox hopes to print computing smarts on fabric, plastic
News Company says its new silver-based ink can be used to print electronic circuitry on everything from flexible e-book screens to pill bottles.
Tags: Handhelds, Xerox Corp., Computing, desktop printer, silicon chip, Smith, Conference, E-book Reader, Manufacturing, Inkjet Printer
Intel toots its research horn for chips--and more
News Chipmaker struts its stuff for next-generation networking, processors, energy efficiency and wireless power transmission at its research day.
Tags: Components, Networking, Technology, Intel Corp., Data, Photonics, Chip, Wireless, Wireless Network, computer
S'pore debuts low-cost RFID reader
News Country's Institute of Microelectronics unveils silicon chip that it says will reduce cost and size of UHF RFID readers.
Tags: RFID
Chip slaps cuffs on pox bug
News A chip that can sense a single virus could lead to revolutionary medical diagnostic tools.
Intel, ST get together for the memories
News Later than hoped but still looking good, a new memory technology could combine the appeal of Flash and RAM.
Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Personal Computers
Flash memory obsolete in three years?
News Start-up Nanochip announces a potential replacement for flash memory that holds up to eight times more data and could be on sale within three years.
Tags: Components, Memory
Quantum computing research gets US$17M funding
News D-Wave Systems has received US$17 million to see if it's possible to compute complex equations by studying the behavior of molecules.
Tags: Processors
"Moore's Law" originator retires
News Three years before cofounding Intel in 1968, Gordon Moore predicted the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double every 18 months.
"Moore's Law" originator retires
News On Thursday, Silicon Valley legend Gordon Moore retired from the board of directors of Intel. In 1968, Moore predicted the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double every 18 months.
Sun sees future in computing service providers
News CEO favors customers who are expanding networked services over "the pedestal server for a flower shop in a shopping mall."
Sun, Fujitsu promise Sparc speed surge
News The two chip designers tout performance improvements set to arrive in their new Sparc models.
Tags: Processors, Servers, Open source
Nokia to allow roaming on laptops
News Laptop users may soon be able to roam like callers on cell phones.
