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    Fundamental changes in basic technology don't come along often, but spintronics may be the hottest thing since sliced silicon.

  • Yes, Virginia, storage is sexy

    It's been a tough half-year for Quantum CEO Rick Belluzzo.

  • Australian chip design may find aliens

    A research collaboration between La Trobe University's Centre for Technology Infusion (CTI), Peregrine Semiconductor Australia (PSA) and the CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) have come up with a new chip design they hope will be integrated into the world's largest radio telescope.

  • Nanotechnology makes small the new big

    The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology.

  • Barrett: No end in sight for Moore's Law

    Moore's Law will boost chip abilities for many years yet, Intel CEO Craig Barrett predicted on Tuesday.

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  • Breaking chip barriers

    HP Labs is leading a project to find new ways to boost silicon-based memory and processor technology far beyond its current limits.

  • Datacentre 2020: Greener, faster, more flexible

    The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?

  • Photos: The history of the transistor

    In the 60 years since its invention, the transistor has shrunk from hulking origins to the point where more than six billion can fit in an area the size of a credit card. Follow the history of the transistor from its humble origins in Bell Labs to its possible quantum future.

  • LinkedIn: Lloyd Taylor, VP of Technical Operations

    Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.

  • India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

    In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

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  • Breaking chip barriers

    HP Labs is leading a project to find new ways to boost silicon-based memory and processor technology far beyond its current limits.

  • ATI, Nvidia battle for speed lead

    The graphics chipmakers' fight for the performance crown heats up with new products to be announced or delivered next month.

  • The big boys of backup: 4 tape devices tested

    With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape.

  • Tech Guide: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

    Get the lowdown on ATI's mighty GeForce-busting graphics chip in our tech guide.

  • Gateway Select 1000

    AMD has done well in retail stores by providing the building blocks for PCs that offer the same amount of megahertz at slightly lower prices than Pentium III-based systems

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