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Has Nanosolar found the Holy Grail of solar energy? For years, the price of solar energy has been so high that, without some form of subsidy, it has been unable to compete with power from the electrical grid. Now Nanosolar, a Palo Alto, California, start-up claims it has developed a "commercial-scal...
Intel will spend next week drumming up enthusiasm for its dual-core processing systems at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. The company, hot on the heels of AMD, announced it would release a 64-bit Pentium 4 processor for PCs by midyear, ending AMD's sole proprietorship of the 64-bit worl...
A characteristic that HIV shares with spam has led Microsoft and AIDS researchers to team up on developing a vaccine to kill the deadly disease. Just as spam merchants make tiny changes in the words that are blocked by filters, so, too, HIV mutates rapidly and in tiny ways that keep it one step ahea...
Less than 24 hours after Intel erased Advanced Micro Devices' status as the sole provider of 64-bit chips by announcing its own, AMD demonstrated a dual-core Athlon 64 processor, touting multiple core capability in its chips for servers, workstations and desktops and claiming it is the only company ...
Intel has finally matched its foe AMD in delivering 64-bit silicon solutions to the market in the form of five new Pentium 4 processors. The market, however, may not be ready for the more powerful chips. Intel said the new desktop chips -- a 3.73 GHz P4 Extreme Edition and four new 3.0-3.6 GHz P4s -...
Samsung Electronics stayed a bit ahead of the curve with its announcement yesterday that it has developed the first working DDR3 DRAM (dynamic random access memory) device. The 512 MB DDR3 (double data rate 3) can process data at 1,066 mbps, which Samsung equated with 8,000 newspaper pages a second....
Researchers at Intel have claimed a breakthrough with a continuous-wave laser created with standard silicon manufacturing, calling it a world first that could lower the cost of high-quality lasers for optical devices used in mainstream computing, communications and medical treatment. Applications of...
Three technology giants -- IBM, Sony and Toshiba -- today took the wraps off of their jointly developed, much-hyped "Cell" chip, which the companies claim to be "effectively a supercomputer on a chip." A prototype was unveiled today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Franci...
William Safire bid farewell to his column at the New York Times this week, but not because he's retiring. Instead, this Pulitzer Prize-winning, former presidential speech writer is moving on to lead an organization concerned with what some call transhumanism. Transhumanism is the advocacy of using ...
Some of the world's leading handset manufacturers and wireless carriers announced an agreement to develop advanced technology for sending high-resolution video at speeds 10 times today's third-generation (3G) wireless. The deal, announced by Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo, included participation from Eur...
The holiday season has arrived, and with it will come higher mortality rates. For a number of reasons, including stress and cold weather, more people die around this time of year. While many accept death as a natural certainty, there is a growing movement that aims to do away with it. In The Scien...
In the latest supercomputer news arriving before the release of the Top500 list this week, IBM has announced collaboration with the Spanish government on a super system made with blade servers. IBM said the "MareNostrum" system, built with 3,564 Power processors in eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade se...
U.S. supercomputing efforts are making up for the country's earlier loss of the speed title to the Japanese Earth Simulator, with two new systems poised to garner top spots on the Top500 Supercomputer list due out next week. The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced that the IBM BlueGene/L ...
Biometric identification is no longer something found only in science fiction. The technology, such as fingerprint identification and face recognition, is starting to be used on a regular basis on everything from personal computers to airport security systems. Clain Anderson, a program director for ...
A Japanese company is heralding its new fuel cell technology, claiming that it may be ready for mobile PCs within the next two years. Industry analysts, however, point to several major hurdles for the technology, which has already been heralded several times before. Materials and Energy Research Ins...
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