AMD Launches First 45nm Shanghai CPUs (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Arcticstoat writes "The wait for AMD's next-gen CPUs is finally over., as the company has now
officially launched its first 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron chips for servers and workstations.
'AMD's move to a 45nm process relies on immersion lithography, where ...
(more)IBM Leapfrogs Intel With 22nm Chips (Friday 19th of September 2008 05:15:01 PM)
Slatterz writes "Intel may be touting 45nm CPUs, but IBM says it can go much further with a
scene to produce future chips using a 22nm fabrication process. The company is adopting a modus
called 'computational scaling' in order to manufacture circuits ...
(more)Microchips With Multiple "Selves" (Saturday 14th of June 2008 04:15:03 AM)
Stony Stevenson brings news from Rice learning mash about birth halt microprocessor circuits
with diverse distinct identities, which could be used in new types of hardware-based DRM, among
other things. From the news release: "'With "n-variant" microprocessor ...
(more)IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks (Friday 06th of June 2008 06:30:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "Water cooling will enable multi-core processors to be stacked into
3D cubes, as it should be to IBM's Zurich probing Laboratory which is demonstrating
three-dimensional chip stacks. By stacking memory chips between processor ...
(more)Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:10:06 PM)
VonGuard writes "I was at the flea market in Oakland yesterday when a pile of EPROMs caught my
eye. When I got them home I found that they were prototypes for Colecovision games. A few were
unpublished or saw limited runs, like Video Hustler (billiards). ...
(more)Silicon Circuits That Bend and Stretch (Friday 28th of March 2008 07:30:03 AM)
Matty the Monkey brings us a story from the BBC about silicon chips which can bend, flex, and
even stretch. Researchers have developed a method to create circuits just 1.5 microns thick,
which can then be bonded to a type of rubber to allow a ...
(more)CES 2008 Hall of Shame (Tuesday 15th of January 2008 04:15:03 PM)
Romana Reynolds writes "The CES 2008 Innovations Design and social work Awards Showcase honored
the Atom Chip Corporation, which was exhibiting the same 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB 'quantum
optical' memory chips back in 2006. We very wandered by, but long gone ...
(more)New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together (Tuesday 23rd of October 2007 01:30:10 AM)
BaCa writes to mention that a new hardware/software combination has been created by a company
called ElcomSoft that will reportedly allow cryptography professionals to build cheap PCs that
work like supercomputers for the specific task of retrieving lost ...
(more)Eight-year-old tests chips for Actel, owns an oscilloscope (Saturday 06th of October 2007 10:11:00 AM)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Sure, you had a paper route when you were a kid; heck, we bet you
were even good at it. Well listen up buddy, your fond memories of childhood success are about
to be completely disintegrated by Carson Page, an eight-year-old ...
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