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- Atom
- (1) Atom A family of small, low-power CPU chips from Intel. Atom provides x86-based computing in low-cost, handheld devices and ultra-compact computers. Introduced in 2008, Atom chips incorporate...
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- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Looking at single atoms of hydrogen
- Looking at single atoms of hydrogenFantastic.Apparently, we are rapidly coming up with new and ingenious uses for graphene. Way to go, Science.
- Tags: hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Looking at single atoms of hydrogen
- As you probably know, graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms packed in a dense two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. And it recently became very popular recently as a basis for ultra-fast transistors. Now, according to Science News, U.S. researchers are using graphene to image individual hydrogen atoms via a standard...
- Tags: Atom, Researcher, Hydrogen, Carbon, Here, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Self-healing ceramics for nuclear safety
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL researchers have used supercomputers to simulate how common ceramics could repair themselves after radiation-induced damages. This is an important discovery because 'materials that can resist radiation damage are needed to expand the use of nuclear energy.' These ceramics, which are able to handle high-radiation doses,...
- Tags: Oxygen, Atom, Defect, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- Photos: Willcom D4 runs with an Atom
- Willcom's Sharp-made D4 will be one of the first UMPC devices to utilize Intel's new Atom chip. One big problem though--it will only be released in Japan. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Atom, Willcom, UNPC, NetBook, Intel, Sharp
- Image galleries 2008-04-16
- Gallery: Intel's Atom and tiny devices to fit
- At the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, CEO Paul Otellini shows off the new tiny Atom chip that packs power yet consumes one-tenth the energy as previous models. by Andy Smith
- Tags: chips, Atom, Intel, processors, ultra-mobile PCs
- Image galleries 2008-04-02
- Taking images of individual atoms in color
- Researchers at Cornell University are using a new kind of scanning transmission electron microscope STEM to take pictures of individual atoms in color for the first time. It seems odd, but 'the current generation of electron microscopes can be thought of as expensive black and white cameras where different atoms...
- Tags: Microscope, Atom, Researcher, Electron, Cornell University, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atoms
- SC07 Day 3: Programming bits and atomsWell, Greshen is right....I think what grshen is talking about at sc07, which is quite possible, if we can do a convergence between nano-technology and software technology. But nano technology is still a technology which has to go miles ahead, before we it can...
- Tags: Intel Corp., virus, SC07 Day 3, atom, programming, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- A plastic as solid as steel
- A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and shows similar strength. Interestingly, this 300-layer plastic has been built with 'strong' nanosheets of clay...
- Tags: Atom, Polymer, Material, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Attosecond X-ray light pulses
- Before going further, do you know what is an attosecond? It's 10-18 second or just a billionth of a billionth of a second. And German researchers have showed that a 'flash of light can be shorter than the time it takes the wave carrying the flash to perform a full...
- Tags: Atom, Electron, Laser, Pulse, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Dancing atoms hold prospect of superfast computing
- Dancing atoms hold prospect of superfast computingAmazing, and yet...it also points out how little we really understand our universe.
- Tags: atom, computing
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1
- It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...
- Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst
- Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...
- Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- Images: HP-Nanolitho's imprint lithography tool
- System will let semiconductor manufacturers produce chips sporting wires measuring a few atoms wide.
- Tags: Semiconductors, semiconductor maker, atom, semiconductor, manufacturer, chip, tool
- Image galleries 2007-05-01
- A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups
- Ive just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating to see the differences...
- Tags: ATOM, Badges, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis, WS-*
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Boron buckyballs are coming
- Im sure you know that buckyballs are molecules composed entirely of carbon and got their name for famed architect Buckminster Fuller because of their shapes. Now, Rice University scientists have designed -- on computers -- a buckyball made of 80 boron atoms. The shape of this very stable molecule is...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Birth, life and death of a photon
- Two days ago, I told you that German physicists had built a single-photon server. But French researchers also have used ultra cold atoms of rubidium to record the full life of a photon. This was one of Einsteins dreams, but it was thought as an impossible one before. In fact,...
- Tags: photon, atom, cavity
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- A single-photon server
- A team of German physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has built a single-photon server with just one atom. Theyve trapped ultra cold atoms of rubidium in a vacuum chamber and applied laser pulses from one side. The generated photons were of high quality, meaning their energy...
- Tags: server, atom, detector, photon, laser, cavity
- Blog posts 2007-03-17
- Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps
- In my last post, I took a look at the recent proliferation of Web widgets, which are modular content and services that are making it easier for anyone to help themselves to the vast pool of high value functionality and information that resides on the Web today. Companies are...
- Tags: Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Right To Remix, RSS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, SOAP, The Long Tail, Two-Way Web, Web 2.0, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
- Photos: D-Wave takes a quantum leap
- Can we decipher the song of atoms? Yes, says D-Wave Systems, and we can make money doing it.
- Tags: quantum, atom, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-02-14
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