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Why You Might Want a Multi-Core Tablet
The current and next generation of tablets are getting into a core war: three, four, even five cores are going...
Neuronal Computer Chips Communicate Like Brain Cells
Brain-like computers could soon become a lot more common. Earlier this year, we heard about a project involving DARPA and...
First Graphene-Based Integrated Circuit Is a Major Step Toward Graphene Computer Chips
IBM researchers have built the first integrated circuit based on graphene, a breakthrough the company says could herald a future...
Intel to Mass-Produce New 3-D Transistors for Faster, More Efficient Computer Chips
In a move that could remake the microchip industry, Intel announced Wednesday it will start mass-producing the first three-dimensional silicon...
Marshall’s Plans: Getting Started With Microcontroller Projects
If you’re looking to gin up a project that can interface with the world–say, a device that tells the weather...
New Nanostructured Snack Packaging Is Most Airtight Ever
A new coating material for food packaging could keep sodas fizzy, chips crispy and military rations more edible, scientists say....
Native Chinese Supercomputer Could Be World’s Most Efficient
The race for performance-per-watt is on
Harvard’s Four-Cent Paper Accelerometer Could Make Motion Sensing Ubiquitous
New tiny force sensors made out of paper cost just four cents apiece, possibly enabling cheap microelectromechanical devices in anything...
Chip-Sized Particle Accelerators Could Lead to Cancer-Fighting Ray Guns
Forget the gigantic Large Hadron Collider — how about a particle-accelerator-on-a-chip? OK, so it can’t reach the energies produced at...
Data-Broadcasting Chip-on-a-Pill to Start Testing Within 18 Months
Pills that only contain medicine are so very 20th century. Swiss pharma house Novartis thinks pills needn’t merely deliver medicine...
