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Bell Labs finds end of the road for transistors
News It's the end of Moore's Law scaling," said John Rogers, director of nanotechnology research. Bell Labs, where the transistor was invented in 1947, has now announced what it believes to be the smallest transistor possible.
[October 18, 2001, 15:34]
Researchers claim battery-life breakthrough
News Citing their paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, Cui said the increased Li-ion battery capacity was made possible though a new type of anode that utilises silicon nanowires. Stanford University researchers have made a discovery that could...
[January 15, 2008, 8:10]
Government unveils £100m tech investment plan
News The eight areas of the technology that the government will be sharing the £100m between will be the development of new materials bound for tough environments; 'direct writing', where materials can be put directly onto complex structures...
[March 16, 2005, 8:40]
The Big Blue balancing act
News He also has to strike the right balance between fundamental research in fields like nanotechnology and the needs of IBM's product groups, which count on inventions to get an edge over competitors. Paul Horn, the director of IBM Research and a...
[March 6, 2006, 13:30]
MatchNet cancels offering
News Nanosys, a nanotechnology company, yanked its IPO last week. Online dating company MatchNet on Thursday withdrew its plans to sell its shares to the public, joining a growing number of Internet companies that have canceled or postponed a stock...
[August 13, 2004, 11:20]
Linux vendor lowers IPO price
News Much-watched search engine Google has run into obstacles, while nanotechnology specialist Nanosys withdrew its IPO altogether. Lindows, the Linux desktop software company that is changing its name to Linspire, lowered on Friday the expected value...
[August 9, 2004, 11:45]
BBC in international spam shock scandal
Blog Adrian represents the finest in media punterhood; not only does he know what he's talking about and is more comfortable in front of a camera than Richard and Judy's sofa, he has a sense of humour that would make Sid James blush and a sense of...
[May 9, 2008, 13:25]
Am I mad, in a coma, or have I gone back in time?
Blog Now, with nanotechnology the use of tools to manipulate materials at the level of individual atoms or molecules IBM has pioneered a new way to conduct heat away from the wire transistors. Something has gone wrong with reality, First, the Economist...
[May 3, 2007, 9:43]
IBM sells mainframe for grid research
News In addition to developing grid virtualisation, the systems will be used for nanotechnology and computer science research. The University of Florida has bought a lower-end IBM z800 mainframe along with 32 Intel servers to investigate grid computing...
[March 6, 2003, 8:02]
Sun co-founder set to depart
News More recently, Joy found himself at the centre of controversy after he wrote an article for Wired magazine on the challenges posed to mankind by new technologies such as nanotechnology, robotics and genetic engineering.
[September 9, 2003, 15:25]
Lampman retires from HP Labs
News Lampman also oversaw much of HP's work in recent years on nanotechnology and advanced transistor research. Dick Lampman, head of HP Labs, will retire in 2007 after a 35-year career at the company, Hewlett-Packard announced on Friday.
[December 11, 2006, 8:13]
Japanese chip 'faster than supercomputer'
News This sort of workload is common in the life sciences and bio-nanotechnology field, where researchers need to examine, for example, how a single protein interacts with thousands of different molecules.
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
Start-up breeds better chips
News Researchers have long discussed techniques for adopting processes found in nature, but practical advances in nanotechnology appear to be inching closer to reality. If start-up Cambrios is right, semiconductors and other computer parts in the future...
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
Back from Zurich...
Blog Perhaps there's a reason that nanotechnology, CERN and the World Wide Web all come from the place. .and I think I'm recovering. There is something very odd about a place where I can take in an IBM press conference - IBM, for heaven's sake - where...
[June 25, 2008, 21:40]
There's life in the old law yet, says Moore
News Alternatives to current chipmaking techniques, such as nanotechnology, aren't evolved enough yet to take on silicon. Moore's Law postulates that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.
[July 10, 2002, 10:46]
Designer molecule seeks out cancer cells
News Medicine has become one of the primary focal points for the growing nanotechnology industry, although the complexity and the risks involved mean that the commercial deployment of these types of molecules will likely take years.
[April 29, 2004, 8:50]
China, tech seen as vital by 'Global Titans'
News Those three outpolled nanotechnology, materials science and alternative energy. Big businesses expect big things from the Internet in the near future, according to a new study. In a survey of major multinational companies, 29 percent of respondents...
[October 11, 2004, 13:20]
Sponge's fibres inspire high-tech cables
News The hope is that one day, such crystals could be used in communication networks and nanotechnology. Bell Labs researchers believe a deep-sea sponge holds clues to building better fibre-optic cables. A Bell Labs team headed by Joanna Aisenberg has...
[August 21, 2003, 10:15]
Thursday
Blog On the way out of the keynote, I'm handed a keyring containing a small scrap of nanotechnology -- an extreme-ultraviolet reflective mirror made from eighty layers of metal ten or fifteen atoms thick. Thursday 12/09/2002
[September 13, 2002, 18:02]
Bangalore closing gap on Silicon Valley
News Haddad said the region is seeing new growth in areas such as nanotechnology. Bangalore may be on the verge of overtaking Silicon Valley as the biggest IT employment region in the world on the back of the rise in offshore outsourcing, according to...
[July 29, 2004, 8:55]
