Dual-core Itanium chip gets airing
News Daeje Chin, minister of information and communications in South Korea, will formally open the conference with a keynote speech on nanotechnology and Korea's plans to promote the IT industry. Nanotechnology will be another dominant issue.
[February 7, 2005, 8:10]
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]
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]
IBM thinks big about nanotechnology
News It will let Big Blue get a better view of the current state of nanotechnology research outside the company, and it could help a handful of companies get beyond the prototype stage, said Thomas Thies, director of physical sciences at IBM, speaking...
[May 16, 2002, 10:07]
Venture capitalists pour money into nanotech
News But corporations and venture capitalists are beginning to eye the field as a potential source of new products and profits, according to Packard and other executives who spoke at this year's Nano Science and Technology Institute Nanotechnology...
[March 10, 2004, 8:30]
EU invests millions in nanotech research
News In related news, semiconductor industry experts are meeting this week in Boston for the NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show. This area of research has become known as nanotechnology, or the development of electronic circuits built on a...
[March 9, 2004, 8:25]
HP makes nanotech breakthrough
News Next week, Intel will partly unveil its plans for nanotechnology at its developers conference in San Jose. Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology on Monday in Europe, a milestone in the company's...
[September 9, 2002, 8:57]
IBM leads charge on holistic computing
News Last year, IBM used its Almaden conference to highlight nanotechnology, which revolves around building chips out of molecules. Benefits from nanotechnology will appear far later in time. Ganek spoke at the company's Almaden Research Center in San...
[April 12, 2002, 11:24]
Report: Keep hands out of nanotech
News Nanotechnology's potential benefit to society is so great, a new report says, that governments should take a hands-off approach to regulating the developing science, despite concern over possible dangers.
[November 25, 2002, 8:18]
New IBM technology to boost chip speed
News Although IBM asserts that nanotechnology may not hit the market in a significant way for another 20 years, HP researchers believe elements of it will reach commercial production within five to 10 years in hybrid silicon-nano chips, said Stan...
[December 3, 2001, 8:53]
'Cyborgs' to converge in London
News These devout transhumanists -- individuals who believe that technology should be used to improve upon the human condition -- will discuss a range of topics including cryonics, life extension, nanotechnology, mind uploading, genetic engineering and...
[July 14, 2000, 9:41]
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]
Back from Zurich...
Blog Perhaps there's a reason that nanotechnology, CERN and the World Wide Web all come from the place. There is something very odd about a place where I can take in an IBM press conference - IBM, for heaven's sake - where the presenter says "This is a...
[June 25, 2008, 21:40]
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News In nanotechnology, Toshiba will demonstrate how silicon nanowires can be used for encryption purposes. Many announcements -- such as the prototype notebooks and desktops that are unveiled at the conference -- concern technology that starts to...
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
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. Montana State held a conference on biomineralisation this week.
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
US presses ahead with patent reforms
News Both proposals continue to face considerable resistance from a broad swath of companies, from major manufacturers (for example General Electric, 3M and Procter & Gamble), pharmaceutical makers, biotechnology and nanotechnology companies, venture...
[July 23, 2007, 9:22]
France talks up its tech prospects
News In the tech market, the government intends to invest more in nanotechnology, biotech automotive, and aeronautics. Although it remains one of the largest economies in Europe, the world still looks at France as a place difficult to conduct business...
[May 25, 2005, 9:25]
£20m on offer for IT entrepreneurs
News Bids are invited from people working in new technology areas such as superconductivity, nanotechnology, data storage, photonics and power electronics. An information day will be held on 5 September at the DTI Conference Centre, London, where...
[August 27, 2002, 14:15]
Fujitsu Siemens lays out nanotech roadmap
News Nanotechnology can also be used in other areas of technology, such as networking and storage. Joseph Reger, the chief technology officer of Fujitsu Siemens, said in a press conference in Hannover at CeBIT on Thursday that his company has already...
[March 10, 2005, 15:20]
Magnetised protein globules talk in binary code
News At the Semicon West conference in San Francisco in July, Paolo Gargini, director of technology strategy at Intel, noted that the chip industry has taken the first tentative steps toward adopting new manufacturing and design methods because of the...
[July 26, 2004, 10:45]
