As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.
Australian scientists from the Centre of Quantum Computing Technology, have pushed the boundaries of atomic scale fabrication by building a wire only three atoms thick, opening the possibility of new chip architectures.
British scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest transistor, measuring one atom in thickness and 10 atoms in width.
Intel and Microsoft announced on Tuesday they are jointly backing university research to help address the challenges posed by a shift to processors with many brains.
Can scientists use the binary of biology, DNA, to grow carbon nanotubes into more efficient circuits? IBM thinks so.
New storage technology can be frankly pornographic: it's big, it's sexy and you want it slammed into your rack right now but is a long term relationship more satisfying?
Oxford University Press' rollout of SAP across the globe has been highly beneficial to the company.
There is currently a great deal of gloom and doom about the state of the Australian ICT sector. Here's 10 ideas for moving ahead.
New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.
Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?
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.
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?
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...
Gordon Moore, "We have another decade, a decade and a half" At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore discusses the end of Moore's Law, which he believes will hit a wall in the next 10 to 15 years.
Intel's latest mobile platform, now officially christened Centrino Duo, introduces the Core Duo (Yonah) chip with dual CPU cores. This and other developments should deliver useful -- if not revolutionary -- increases in notebook performance and battery life.
The choices are endless -- but do we really need everything our mobile phone sells us?
Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
In the first instalment of a two-part review on thin clients, we look at thin-client terminals.
The pursuit of faster CPUs has AMD and Intel back at the core.
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