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.
Processor powerhouses IBM and Intel are set to reveal their plans to use the "strained silicon" technique to build faster, power-efficient chips--and maybe break free of Moore's Law.
Intel has devised a laser out of silicon, the latest in a series of steps that could take the expense and pain out of optical communication.
Intel will try to further cut power consumption in its next generation of chips by using improved strained silicon, along with transistors that block power to other circuits, and other added features.
Moore's Law is alive and well, but Intel is changing its basic semiconductor recipes to make sure that it stays that way.
Processor powerhouses IBM and Intel are set to reveal their plans to use the 'strained silicon' technique to build faster, power-efficient chips--and maybe break free of Moore's Law.
IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
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A look at IBM's RAMAC, the original hard disk drive created in 1956. It weighed more than 250 kilograms and stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter.
Though still in its early days, grid computing looks to have a promising future -- if vendors can continue to educate IT departments about its benefits.
Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and to test the nanotubes, which could help pave the way for carbon chips.
Researchers at Advanced Micro Devices report significant new design techniques that the company says will lead--eventually--to higher chip performance.
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IBM has developed what it says is the world's tiniest working transistor.
The graphics chipmaker inked a manufacturing deal with Big Blue so it could avoid putting all of its graphics chips in one basket.
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