Quantum Computing's Strange World

Information Week: Qubits used in the experiments can spin clockwise and counterclockwise simultaneously, embodying both 0 and 1, in a phenomenon called superposition. Measuring the system causes the superposition to collapse, yielding answers to computations. Two qubits physically separate in...

Intel Announces Photonics Breakthrough

Canada.com: In an advance that could inexpensively speed up corporate data centres and eventually personal computers, researchers used everyday silicon to build a device that converts data into light beams. Light-based communications has until now largely been the realm of...

Intel Expected to Make Chips for Digital TVs

Yahoo! News: Intel wants to get inside your television. The world's largest microchip maker will soon unveil plans to make chips for digital televisions, opening a fast-growing market to a company that dominates the computer chip business, an industry...

Intel Digital TV

New York Times: The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opens on Jan. 8, Intel is expected to disclose the development...

PCs As Heart of Home Entertainment

New York Times: This is not your grandma's PC," said Louis J. Burns, the executive in charge of Intel's desktop computer division. The arrival of the more flexible personal computers, Silicon Valley executives argue, is aimed at permitting the industry...

Silex Claims Silicon Breakthrough

Light Reading.com: One of the most sought after prizes in the global semiconductor industry – the demonstration of optical gain in silicon – has been successfully achieved by Silex subsidiary Translucent Photonics Inc, in Silicon Valley, California. “This is a...

Intel Discovers New Insulation for Future Chips

TechNewsWorld: Chip giant Intel claims to have cleared a major hurdle in the quest to maintain power and heat efficiency in computer chips by discovering a process to shrink the transistors on the chip smaller and smaller to atomic levels....

Print yourself a roll of semiconductors?

ZDNet Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center has developed a way to use inkjet printing techniques to create cheap, flexible sheets of transistors--a process that could radically change the way flat-panel screens are created. The fabled technology lab is one of...

Join the 8-Bit Music Revolution

Wired: ... Chip music is made using processors from the antediluvian 8-bit past. (Pro Tools, by contrast, starts at 24 bits.) The genre's seminal moment occurred three years ago when Role Model (real name: Johan Kotlinski) created a custom Game...

Human Genome on Chip Offered by Rivals

New York Times: The genome on a chip has arrived. Melding high technology with biology, several companies are rushing to sell slivers of glass or nylon, some as small as postage stamps, packed with pieces of all 30,000 or so...

New Sun Chip May Unseat the Circuit Board

New York Times: Sun Microsystems researchers are set to announce that they have found way to transmit data inside computer 60 to 100 times faster than possible now by placing edge of one chip directly in contact with its neighbor;...

81GHz diamond semiconductor created

Geek.com Geek News: With the recent announcements of hotter than ever processors, semiconductor makers are facing a profound quandry. Customers are demanding more and more performance, which requires smaller and smaller transistors. As the CPU becomes physically smaller, thermal dissipation...

Electronic nanotechnology will sustain Moore's Law

The Inquirer: A Carnegie Mellon professor said that field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices which use electronic nanotechnology and molecular electronics will keep Moore's Law alive and well in the future. Seth Goldstein, said the new class of electronics devices...

Apple rolls out 64-bit Power Mac G5 computers

San Francisco Chronicle: Apple Computer has recently received praise for its iTunes music service. But its new Power Mac G5 computers, which went on sale in stores Monday, will probably have a much larger impact on the world of personal...

US engineers harness palladium in nanotechnology breakthrough

Platinum Today: Engineers in the US say they have used palladium to develop a way to grow silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes directly on microstructures, thus paving the way for cheaper and faster commercialisation of a myriad of nanotechnology-based devices....

Nanotech breakthrough jogs memory

ZDnet.com: The first 10GB nanotechnology memory (NRAM) device has been built in the laboratories of Nantero, the Boston, Massachussetts company has said. Using carbon nanotubes a billionth of a meter in diameter sprinkled onto a silicon wafer, the device has...