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Move over silicon, there's new transistor material in town: Move over silicon, there's new transistor material in townGee, back in 1988 it was going to beGaAs that made the super high speed computers work better than Si. Cray and other bleeding edge companies were investing in GaAs fabrication capital machines and facilities. Now look at how many GaAs devices...; Tags: Semiconductors, InGaAs, GAAS, transistor; Discussion threads 2006-12-11
Photos: InGaAs is the new silicon: MIT is working with a new transistor material called indium gallium arsenide, or InGaAs, it hopes will outpace the speed of silicon.; Tags: InGaAs, transistor, silicon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Image galleries 2006-12-08

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Microsoft's multicore strategy: Microsoft's multicore strategymulticoreinfoA link is provided to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , the hub for multicore related resources.Moderately talented?"...enables the moderately talented to produce functional software. Enabling Visual Basic programmers to exploit multicore chips is no mean feat."Say what? I use VB because its easier and faster to develop...; Tags: multi-core, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-25
Microsoft's manycore strategy: The post on Apple's Grand Central multicore support in OS X.vi had some commenters claiming that Microsoft had already solved the multicore software problem. Far from it. And Microsoft knows it Microsoft has a multi-pronged campaign to get in front of multicore. They're hiring smart...; Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, MR, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-06-25
High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology: What is it with high-tech giants and solar energy research and development? Apparently, as it turns out, many of the same manufacturing and design ideas that people have been applying to computer systems and microprocessor technology matter in the world of solar. Intel is the third huge...; Tags: Solar Energy, Transistor, Photovoltaics, Microprocessor, Technology, IBM Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-16

Asus ENGTX280: Editor's note: After retesting their initial findings, our colleagues at GameSpot found that the GeForce 9800 GX 2 had better scores on "Call of Duty 4" and "Crysis" than was first reported. With that new information, we have found that the GTX280 has a smaller performance advantage over Nvidia's previous...; Tags: Semiconductors, Video cards, ASUS, GeForce GTX280, NVidia Corp., Nvidia GeForce; Product reviews 2008-06-16
Philips GoGear SA6185 (8GB): The Philips GoGear SA6185 is an affordable, easy-to-use portable video player with a glossy, streamlined design and a modest set of features. With a retail price $159, the Philips GoGear SA6185's low price tag and larger-than-average screen are the only attributes that help this otherwise bland gadget stand out from...; Tags: Corporate communications, Media players, Digital music, Digital media, Philips GoGear SA6185, Philips Electronics N.V., GoGear, video; Product reviews 2008-06-12
Apple seeking engineers with the right touch: Apple seeking engineers with the right touchThat explains why Apple products are so overpriced[i]It seems that Steve Jobs wasn’t satisfied and he sent one of the logic-board revisions back to the drawing board. Why? Because he didn’t like the color of a resistor. Not its functioning, reliability rating or cost....; Tags: Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-04-15
The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post: The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...; Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2; Discussion threads 2008-04-15
Tukwila (Photos: Intel shows off next-gen chips): Tukwila (Photos: Intel shows off next-gen chips)Quad-core? Two Billion ProcessorsSpell check wouldn't get that one... you mean 2 billion TRANSISTORS right? "Quad" by definition means there can only be 4 processors :)Their right rightSurely a transistor does a process by its very ability to switch on and off so quid...; Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, Tukwila, chip, photograph, Intel Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-03-19
Intel moving to six-cores this year; What will you do with them?: Intel outlined plans to produce six-core chips in the fourth quarter. The move is that latest salvo in a game to out-core AMD on everything. AMD finally gets its quad-core chip out the door and Intel moves to six. The future looks like this: Four cores, six cores, eight cores,...; Tags: Performance, Intel Itanium, Core, Intel Corp., Chip, Dunnington, Nehalem, Performance Management, Processors, Semiconductors, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-18
Decoding AMD's 45nm processor announcement: After a dismal 2007, AMD is trying to regain its footing. The company made several technology announcements at a computer tradeshow in Hannover, Germany last week--including progress on 45nm processors. But it remains to be seen whether AMD can deliver on all of this, and be more competitive in 2008....; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Penryn, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Kurzweil: 'Exponential' change ahead for games, people: Kurzweil: 'Exponential' change ahead for games, peopleA Public Thank You....As the IS&T Manager for NMSBVI (20 years) I would like to thanks Ray Kruzweil for bring the world of print to the blind and visually impaired. The innovation of text-to-speech and the use of OCR has brought the printed...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, Semiconductors, Kurzweil, computer, hardware, software, Exponential Technology, game; Discussion threads 2008-02-22
Process Variation Aware Transistor Sizing for Load Balance of Multiple Paths in Dynamic CMOS for Timing Optimization: The complexity in timing optimization of high-performance microprocessors has been increasing with the number of channel-connected transistors in various paths of dynamic CMOS circuits and the rising magnitude of process variations in nanometer CMOS process. In this paper, a process variation aware transistor sizing algorithm for dynamic CMOS circuits while...; Tags: Aware, Optimization, Transistor, CMOS, Academy Publisher, Optimization Algorithm, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2008-02-01
Inside Intel's Penryn Processor: On Monday Intel announced the first mobile quad-core processor called Penryn. The new silicon is the cousin to the Penryn desktop processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, announced on 12 November 2007. The next generation transistors, used in the new Penryn processors (Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel...; Tags: Silicon, Transistor, Apple MacBook, Intel Corp., Apple MacBook Pro, Penryn Desktop Processor, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-01-10
How LCD makers lie to you about viewing angles: I was in a large computer store looking at computer LCD monitors and a lady was asking about which one was the better one to buy.Â A man presumably her family told her that the onesÂ which indicated TFT Thin Film Transistor were the ones to buy.Â I then interjected that...; Tags: Monitor, LCD Monitor, TFT, Photograph, Image, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-12-17
News to know: Working with Android; XP activation; Google Talk woe; Apple: Notable headlines: Ed Burnette: Getting started with Android Ed Bott: Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3 Mary Jo Foley: There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suite. Microsoft releases CRM 4.0 to manufacturing just under the...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Talk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Printers, Business Intelligence, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Celebrating 60 years of transistors: Celebrating 60 years of transistorsand then they invented the 3d transistorthis will probably push that date back another hundred years or so...[u]http://www.news.com/Intel-unfurls-experimental-3D-transistors/2100-1001_3-958149.html[/u]RE: Celebrating 60 years of transistorsAccording to the headline, reminding people of this history is a great thing to celebrate, except that hardly anyone understands what it is all...; Tags: Semiconductors, transistor; Discussion threads 2007-12-14
Photos: The transistor turns 60: From a few small pieces of metal at Bell Labs, an entire industry--to say nothing of a vast swath of modern life--was born. by CNET News.com; Tags: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Transistor, Photograph, Semiconductors, Hardware, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2007-12-14
AMD: Is the glass half full--or empty?: AMD: Is the glass half full--or empty?Half? Not even...And it is not all about the quad core. Intel's duo chips have stomped AMD too. When we look at the video ATI side they have dropped the ball there too. (No new products since the buy out...; Tags: Research & Development, Processors, Semiconductors, Intel Only, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., AMD HAS; Discussion threads 2007-12-13