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Carbon Nanotubes Rise Up Food Chain
News A large semiconductor maker has signed a deal with Nantero to use its technology for making memory with carbon nanotubes, in the second licensing agreement for the nanotechnology start-up. In the end, though, chips based on Nantero's design are...
[July 2, 2004, 9:10]
Tiny Tubes Mean Big Chip Advances
News The development in nanotechnology, the manipulation of molecular structures, will allow IBM to more easily create groups of transistors from tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes. Nanotechnology research, such as IBM's efforts with carbon...
[April 27, 2001, 10:22]
Nanotech Merger Creates Patent Powerhouse
News With this deal, the resulting company, potentially, will have a number of patents for exploiting carbon in nanotechnology products. Although governments around the world have been pumping money into nanotechnology research, commercialisation...
[December 23, 2004, 10:50]
Nanotech Set To Beef Up Chips
News Nanotechnology research in Korea and the US may produce computer memory hundreds of times denser in storage than present-day chips. In the US, Nantero, a start-up using nanotechnology to create high-density memory chips, has developed a working...
[June 19, 2003, 8:55]
Intel To Unveil Nanotech Plans
News Intel will unfurl its nanotechnology plans at its developer conference next week, shedding light on what will power its chips for the coming decades. Sunlin Chou, senior vice president of the technology and manufacturing group at Intel, will...
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
Government Ups Nanotech Funding
News The Department of Trade and Industry is to spend £40m over the next few months to fund nanotechnology projects, as part of a programme to build up the promising sector in the UK. Last week, the UK Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) Network, through...
[October 13, 2003, 13:05]
The Atoms Went Marching In One By One
News As interest in nanotechnology peaks, government scientists are claiming a significant breakthrough with the ability to make atoms move one by one. The new method, the institute said, is "likely to warm the hearts of researchers in fields ranging...
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
IBM Reaches Nano-computing Breakthrough
News Nanotechnology is essentially the science of building things on a molecular level. General Motors is currently trying to develop stronger materials for cars using methods from nanotechnology. Although it's in its infancy, nanotechnology could, over...
[May 20, 2002, 8:38]
IDF: Where No Chip Has Gone Before
News The nanotechnology era is here, and Intel is looking at all the options. Next year, the nanotechnology era will begin in earnest with the release of 90-nanometre chips, Chou added. Nanotechnology, the science of manufacturing chips and other...
[September 13, 2002, 7:46]
HP Makes Nanotech Breakthrough
News Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology on Monday in Europe, a milestone in the company's goal to build future generations of smaller, faster and cheaper chips based on "molecular grids.
[September 9, 2002, 8:57]
Cycle Parts Emerge From Carbon Nanotubes
News Sports equipment maker Easton Sports plans to start producing bicycle components constructed out of carbon nanotubes in 2005, in another step forward for the budding nanotechnology industry. Carbon nanotubes are coils of pure carbon that exhibit a...
[September 2, 2004, 10:55]
Swinging Nanotubes Point Way To Next-generation RAM
News The first 10Gb nanotechnology memory (NRAM) device has been built in the laboratories of Nantero, the Boston, Massachusetts-based company has said. Using carbon nanotubes a billionth of a metre in diameter sprinkled onto a silicon wafer, the device...
[June 13, 2003, 14:37]
Venture Capitalists Pour Money Into Nanotech
News But also like the Net, nanotechnology stands to influence many people's lives by making improvements in computers, consumer electronics, materials and even health care, producing previously unheard-of characteristics from basic materials such as...
[March 10, 2004, 8:30]
Alcohol Gives New Life To Thirsty Portables
News Although the basic physics is not new, both companies have turned to nanotechnology to overcome some of the problems that have stopped fuel cells becoming consumer products. The basic innovation is the use of recently discovered forms of carbon...
[September 3, 2001, 17:14]
The Future Is Very, Very Small, Say Intel
News It's one of the novelties of nanotechnology. Although developing these new chips and materials won't be easy, with the advent of nanotechnology, governments around the world have dramatically increased their investment in chip technology.
[October 25, 2004, 16:55]
New IBM Technology To Boost Chip Speed
News IBM is also competing with Hewlett-Packard over nanotechnology, including proposed methods for building chips out of self-aligning strands of carbon molecules. Although IBM asserts that nanotechnology may not hit the market in a significant way for...
[December 3, 2001, 8:53]
The Problems Of Processor Manufacture
News There are some interesting possibilities in wireless, making the array of an antenna adjustable by nanotechnology, for example. What's happening with carbon? From 2001 to 2002, 70 percent of carbon nanotubes we produced in the labs were...
[March 10, 2006, 17:05]
Nanotubes Set To Take Off
News Some of these tasks may require Nobel-quality breakthroughs, said Josh Wolfe, a managing partner at Lux Capital, a venture firm concentrating on nanotechnology Carbon Nanotechnologies (CNI), the company that produces carbon nanotubes for IBM and...
[September 12, 2003, 12:40]
Intel Forms Nanotech Alliance To Improve Memory
News Intel has entered into a limited technology alliance with Nanosys, one of the more visible nanotechnology start-ups, to help the chipmaker overcome technological roadblocks in memory chips. Nanosys specialises in licensing intellectual property in...
[January 15, 2004, 13:05]
Intel Unveils New Chip Manufacturing Technology
News Technically, these chips can be classified as nanotechnology parts because their components will measure less than 100 nanometres across. Chips made on the 90-nanometre process, Intel's first products of the nanotechnology era, will also feature...
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
