Motorola plans to announce this week that it has manufactured prototypes of a flash-memory chip that relies on a thin layer of silicon crystals to retain data, a breakthrough that could help the flash industry overcome looming technical hurdles.
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.
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.
With a recent breakthrough in making circuits with molecules, Hewlett-Packard hopes to change chip history and expand its own role in the process.
HP Labs is leading a project to find new ways to boost silicon-based memory and processor technology far beyond its current limits.
HP Labs is leading a project to find new ways to boost silicon-based memory and processor technology far beyond its current limits.
Carbon. Is there nothing it can't do? As well as being the fundamental element behind life, the premium component in energy storage and the top contender for executioner of the human race, it's now beginning to fill in the forms for consideration as inheritor to silicon's electronic crown.
If the current trend for faster, more capable, more reliable computing operating at ever smaller amounts of power continues, the chances are good that we'll see the first MRAM in 2004.
Beginning in 2004, Hewlett-Packard will pair up future Itanium chips so twice the number can be shoehorned into a computer.
Unanswerable questions of our time, number one: If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? And number two: If your new PC's so much better than your old one, how come it don't work properly?
HP Labs is leading a project to find new ways to boost silicon-based memory and processor technology far beyond its current limits.
A new experimental device combines biology and electronics to investigate the wetware in our heads.
IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how MRAM, one of the leading candidates to replace flash memory in mobile phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.
If the current trend for faster, more capable, more reliable computing operating at ever smaller amounts of power continues, the chances are good that we'll see the first MRAM in 2004.
Intel said it has produced chips with the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a strong sign the company will continue to keep pace with Moore's Law.
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