Warming PC Sound With Vacuum Tubes
News Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, part of the Acer Group, is selling a PC audio...
[December 23, 2002, 14:21]
The Transistor Turns 60
News Since the 1930s, Bell Labs had been looking to replace vacuum tubes with an electronic switch. Inside were more than 17,000 vacuum tubes. This was the very first transistor, invented at Bell Labs in December 1947.
[December 17, 2007, 12:25]
Am I Mad, In A Coma, Or Have I Gone Back In Time?
Blog These vacuum spaces, sized 20 nanometers across and spaced 40 nanometers apart, act like molecule-sized versions of the vacuum tubes that once helped insulate mainframe computers and televisions. As for the copper wires and tiny insulating voids...
[May 3, 2007, 9:43]
'IT Industry Is Ageist' Says Intel Chairman
News There will be a scarcity of expertise, but I wouldn't suggest people major in vacuum tubes, and there's a scarcity of vacuum tubes as well," added Barrett. Intel's chairman has criticised the IT industry for being ageist when it comes to...
[March 9, 2006, 16:35]
It Changed My Business
Member Review I do not consider myself a computer expert although I have been working with computers since vacuum tubes. My business requires that I run some proprietory Windows only software. I began investigating GNU/Linux with Caldera.
[December 7, 2005, 13:55]
Celebrating 60 Years Of Transistors
News Their device, called a point contract transistor, conducted electricity and amplified signals, a job previously handled by bulky and delicate vacuum tubes and other components. He added: "You couldn't have five tubes in your iPod.
[December 17, 2007, 7:33]
Greaybeards Rejoice!
Talkback Born at the end of the second world war into a world of valves ("vacuum tubes" for the linguistically lattitudinally challenged) we've been privileged to live through the birth and the first sixty years of the "semiconductor era" which has not...
[December 18, 2006, 9:42]
Spintronics To Save Moore's Law?
News Until now and for years to come, data-processing technology has relied on charge-based devices, ranging from vacuum tubes to million-transistor microchips. Stanford University and three other California schools have formed a joint effort to advance...
[March 10, 2006, 9:10]
Small PCs Feel The NForce2
News Heat pipes are sealed metal tubes that contain a wicking material and a small amount of liquid in a near-vacuum to channel heat quickly and efficiently. The growing trend towards smaller PCs got a fillip on Tuesday when motherboard manufacturer...
[January 8, 2003, 10:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With only three Japanese companies left producing the tubes, it looks as if it's about to follow the transistor radio into exile, being made for peanuts in the rest of Asia while the big boys concentrate elsewhere.
[July 31, 2001, 16:48]
