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- Testing new transistors in space
- Testing new transistors in spaceCIGS is already here.CIGS solar sheets are already printed to film. They need to build a mass producing facility to lower costs. Right noe they are mini-mills.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_indium_gallium_selenidehttp://news.cnet.com/CIGS-cell-makers-battle-it-out-for-efficiency-crown/2100-13840_3-6227812.htmlRE: Testing new transistors in spaceA detail that was left out. Current satalites and shuttles are using decades old...
- Tags: Semiconductors, new transistor, Testing, transistor, CIGS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
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- LG, Sharp admit to LCD price fixing; affected Apple, Dell, Motorola
- LG Display, Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for participating in a liquid crystal display price-fixing conspiracy and pay $585 million in fines, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The three companies worked in concert to set prices on thin-film...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Apple Inc., Sharp Corp., Price, LCD, Motorola Inc., Monitors & Displays, Sales Strategy, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Sales, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Gateway XHD3000 Monitor (30-inch)
- Gateway XHD3000 Monitor (30-inch)Gateway XHD3000 reviewThe Gateway XHD3000 computer monitor offers users a 30-inch extreme TFT active matrix meaning a thin film transistor display that refreshes more frequently high definition, flat LCD screen. With a horizontal and vertical angle of 178 degrees, a resolution of 2560 X 1600 pixels, and...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Gateway XHD3000, Gateway Inc., monitor, computer monitor
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- Microsoft to release critical Windows security patch on October 23
- Microsoft to release critical Windows security patch on October 23Let me save you the troubleLet's get this out of the way for the fanboys. "This wouldn't be needed with XX OS." Substitute for XX Linux or Mac OS designation in prior sentence. That's not correct but it...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Patches, critical Windows security, Microsoft Corp., security, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Vertical line issue also plagues some iMacs
- Vertical line issue also plagues some iMacsWhat part is breaking?The video chip on the mobo or the LCD?Good spooky story timingMy four year old Dell LCD monitor (1704FPTT) began displaying a vertical yellow line, or two, recently. Mine is still sporadic, but I'm sure it will stay or get...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Apple Store, Dual-Core box, Apple Inc., line issue, monitor, LCD
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Mobile TV - not dead, just not ready for primetime
- Just because some technologies are just ahead of their time doesn't mean they're dead. Sure, companies behind them may fall but the technologies themselves sometimes are just waiting for the moment when consumer or businesses are ready to act or the computing power has finally caught up. ...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile TV, TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, Mashable Blogger, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- 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: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Transistor, Intel Corp., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Processors, Silicon, Components, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Penryn Desktop Processor
- 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. A man presumably her family told her that the ones which indicated TFT Thin Film Transistor were the ones to buy. I then interjected that...
- Tags: Monitor, LCD Monitor, TFT, Photograph, Image, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
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