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- (1) A small, thin continuous-loop magnetic tape cartridge that has been used from time to time for data storage and specialized applications.
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- Damn the recession, full speed ahead for a green tech IPO?
- Courtesy GT Solar. There may be an interesting green tech IPO this year, recession or no. Interest among investors will be an indication to numerous green tech companies of their attractiveness. Especially the solar enmergy sector. Today it looks like a solar...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- IBM silicon rejects reborn in solar panels
- Just a wafer thin. Yes, indeedy, when the Monty Python crew penned that infamous line in their movie, "Meaning of Life" that hadn't one iota of a clue what it could mean for the solar energy industry. And now, here's the point of this blog. There's word...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Photos: Reclaiming silicon with water
- IBM's eco-friendly process scrapes off circuitry from unusable wafers, which are then sold to the solar industry. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-29
- What is nanopantography?
- If you don't know the answer, I cannot blame you. After all, a query for 'nanopantography' on Google returns only 43 results as I'm typing this. But researchers from the University of Houston say that nanopantography can create billions of nanotech devices in hours. The idea behind the technology is...
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- AMD releases 65 nm mainstream dual core processors
- AMD has released four brand new 65 nanometer dual core microprocessors for the mainstream desktop market. The new parts are: Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6 GHz $301*Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.5 GHz $271*Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.3 GHz $214*Athlon 64 X2 4000+ 2.1 GHz ...
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Photos: Technicolor wafers star on IDF floor
- Wafers of prototype 80-core chips and PCs sporting Intel's upcoming chips are on dazzling display at the Intel Developer Forum.
- Image galleries 2006-09-26
- Foundry wafer demand will grow 10% in 2005
- Foundry wafer demand is expected to grow only 10% in 2005, compared to 31% in 2004, according to Semico. The research company expects to see increased activity in some non-traditional foundry markets, such as memories and microprocessors. That will push foundry wafer demand up 23% in 2006.
- Blog posts 2005-10-20
- GaAs wafer market to grow at 54% a year
- The overall GaAs bulk wafer market is projected to grow by 54% through to 2008, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. The market is expected to grow following major upgrades to 6'' wafers at some of the world's leading GaAs device companies. Japan and North America continue to host...
- Blog posts 2004-10-18
- Silicon foundry wafer demand to grow 33% in 2004
- The overall silicon foundry market is expected to grow by 33% in terms of wafer demand in 2004, but the business is projected to increase by only 10% next year, said research company Semico. Total semiconductor wafer demand is forecast to grow at a 12% compound annual growth rate CAGR...
- Blog posts 2004-09-10
- Semiconductor Wafer Foundry Partners With EMC
- In its quest for quality excellence, 1st Silicon Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (1Si) has formed many strategic supply-chain partnerships, including one with Integrated Circuit Design Service ICDS. Due to its business growth, ICDS was compelled to look for higher performance storage solutions. ICDS also wanted to ensure that business-critical data was...
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- What memory technology is Samsung after?
- Samsung Electronics recently made public its $5.8 billion offer for SanDisk, a major manufacturer of memory cards. There are plenty of possible business motives behind this bid including the hefty royalties that Samsung pays to SanDisk to use its flash technology, and SanDisk's strong retail brands and distribution. But I'll...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip
- One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Intel touts Moorestown 'mobile' chip
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Anand Chandrasekher, general manager for the chipmaker's Ultra Mobility Group, shows a wafer with "Lincroft"--the main processor for Moorestown. The new integrated chip, designed for the smartphone market, is expected before the 2009-2010 time frame, according to Chandrasekher.
- Videos 2008-08-20
- The news on Intel's Nehalem; chips with integrated GPUs up next
- Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum this week, was expected. Nehalem isn't a single product, but a family of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: report
- Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: reportRather moot, isn't it?Sort of like the US case against Microsoft after Netscape was already pushing up daisies, any fines assessed against Intel won't revive AMD. In fact, it's a good bet that any fines against Intel will show up on the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- IBM to cool chips with H20
- Much like a Porsche boxer engine -- only much, much smaller -- scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micro pipes of water to cool itself, IBM announced this morning. The chip's components are...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- IBM cools chips with 'tiny rivers' of H2O; Aims to stretch Moore's Law
- IBM Labs is taking water cooling to another level--and pumping water into each layer of a semiconductor via pipes as thin as a human hair. On Thursday, IBM said that its researchers--along with Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin--demonstrated a prototype that integrates a water cooling system direction into...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Via finally releases new Nano processor
- Early this morning Via Technologies finally announced is new Nano processor, better-known by its code name, Isaiah. The Nano will deliver two to three times the performance of the current C7 with roughly the same power requirements, according to the company. Via has spent years working on...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Intel & Micron intro 34nm flash chip
- Driving fast on the cost curve. Flash prices need to drop about 50% a year to keep volumes growing. Putting more flash on a wafer helps do that. The new process produces 1.6 TB of NAND flash on a 300 mm (12 inch) wafer. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU
- More details on Nvidia's new GTX 200 series GPUs, which are set to launch sometime next month, courtesy of the site TGDaily. The new chip will reportedly be massive, measuring 576 square millimeters, due to the increased number of processing units and a 512-bit memory controller. All...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
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