Government Ups Nanotech Funding
News Intel, among other companies, is also investigating nanotech. The US in May agreed to channel a large amount of funding into nanotech, despite some qualms over whether the technology could ultimately prove dangerous.
[October 13, 2003, 13:05]
Cycle Parts Emerge From Carbon Nanotubes
News The company also produces tools for testing and producing nanotubes, which many experts believe could be the first large-scale market in the nanotech business. Sports equipment maker Easton Sports plans to start producing bicycle components...
[September 2, 2004, 10:55]
The Future Is Very, Very Small, Say Intel
News The novelties of nanotech Then, designers will move into the "integrated solutions" era, in which chipmakers will replace the transistor gate with different materials, such as carbon nanotubes or carbon nanowires.
[October 25, 2004, 16:55]
US Plans Huge Spend On Nanotechnology
News Instead, before approving the overall spending bill by an overwhelming margin, politicians jousted over amendments about "social and ethical concerns" relating to nanotech. Likening the threat of problematic nanotech to the fast-growing kudzu plant...
[May 8, 2003, 9:28]
Venture Capitalists Pour Money Into Nanotech
News Packard, who gave a keynote speech at the Nanotech 2004 show on Tuesday, said in an interview that his company plans to plough about 25 percent of its $625m venture capital fund into nanotechnology companies over time.
[March 10, 2004, 8:30]
Nanotech Merger Creates Patent Powerhouse
News In a deal that will help solidify its patent portfolio while the nanotech industry gains momentum, Carbon Nanotechnologies (CNI) announced on Wednesday that it will merge with C Sixty. CNI is one of the leading proponents of carbon nanotubes, thin...
[December 23, 2004, 10:50]
Corporates Plough Cash Into Nanotech
News Spending on nanotech research will more than double from the estimated $3bn-level level of 2003, according to an annual state of the industry report from Lux Research, a consulting firm that studies the industry.
[August 16, 2004, 9:30]
Single Molecule Stores Data In IBM Breakthrough
News Described in a paper published in the 4 August issue of nanotech journal Small, the device is a surprisingly simple organic compound that can be set to high or low resistance through electrical pulses.
[August 10, 2006, 17:40]
Magnificent MEMS And The Micro-machines
News Disposable satellite transmitters, inexpensive medical testing equipment and sensors for automatically tracking inventory or traffic patterns will become possible over the next 10 years through developments in nanotechnology, speakers at the...
[February 25, 2003, 10:58]
Tiny Tubes Mean Big Chip Advances
News Nanotech-only chips would come after the hybrids were perfected. Nanotechnology research, such as IBM's efforts with carbon nanotubes, is considered vital to the future of the semiconductor industry. The development in nanotechnology, the...
[April 27, 2001, 10:22]
Nanotech Display Shown Off By Motorola
News Motorola has built a working prototype of a new colour display that uses numerous tiny filaments called carbon nanotubes, a design the company argues is superior to existing flat-panel technology. This is the first milestone that shows we can make...
[May 9, 2005, 11:20]
Fujitsu Siemens Lays Out Nanotech Roadmap
News Microprocessors that use carbon nanotubes rather than copper wires to connect layers of transistors may be available in less than a decade, according to Fujitsu Siemens. Joseph Reger, the chief technology officer of Fujitsu Siemens, said in a press...
[March 10, 2005, 15:20]
Nanotech Sheds Light On Solar Revolution
News The secret ingredient, both in terms of seeing in the dark and capturing the sun's energy, is carbon. The infrared-sensitive nanocrystals created at the university consist of about eight carbon atoms strung together in a chain.
[January 18, 2005, 16:00]
Nanotech Set To Beef Up Chips
News Researchers from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and the Chonbuk National University, both in Korea, have developed a technique for making non-volatile computer memory out of carbon nanotubes, reported the MIT Technology Review.
[June 19, 2003, 8:55]
HP Nanotech Takes Chips Beyond Transistors
News In the latches used to perform calculations, it is a layer of a common acid made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Researchers from the Palo Alto, California-based computing giant have created devices called crossbar latches that can be used to...
[February 1, 2005, 8:25]
Intel Forms Nanotech Alliance To Improve Memory
News Intel has already signalled an interest in nanowires, stating that they, along with carbon nanotubes, could be used to make chips in the future. Intel has entered into a limited technology alliance with Nanosys, one of the more visible...
[January 15, 2004, 13:05]
HP Makes Nanotech Breakthrough
News In a decade or so, carbon nanotubes, strings of carbon molecules that act like wires, could begin to be incorporated into microprocessors, gradually replacing copper wires. By contrast, carbon circuits will form themselves, with the process being...
[September 9, 2002, 8:57]
Intel To Unveil Nanotech Plans
News Carbon nanotubes, meanwhile, rewrite the basic structure of chips. Chips with carbon nanotubes, however, are still years away. With these, chipmakers would make circuits out of strings of carbon atoms rather than out of metallic wires.
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
