Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, theorised that symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit element, the "memristor" or memory resistor. Now HP thinks its memristor will improve memory and circuit design.
2007 saw millions of innovations shoot from the minds of tech heads into the world of reality -- here are a few ZDNet Australia thought were pretty cool.
IBM is tinkering with a new material that could drastically slash the costs of "drawing" circuits on semiconductors, and the stuff is a close relative to tennis shoe glue.
After 17-years trying to get the other technology gurus at Sun to follow his lead recently appointed software CTO Rob Gingell is now responsible for steering the shift from Unix to Java.
IBM's nanotech project, code-named Millipede, features a chip with more than 1,000 heated spikes that holds up to a trillion bits of information in a postage stamp-size area. It could store 10GB in a mobile phone.
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After 17-years trying to get the other technology gurus at Sun to follow his lead recently appointed software CTO Rob Gingell is now responsible for steering the shift from Unix to Java.
IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area.
IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area.
With the Australian launch of the Intel Pentium 4, we decided it would be a good idea to run a competition to find the fastest system in Australia based on the Intel Pentium 4 processor and retailing under AU$7,000.
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