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1. Solar sail set for launch next year

   (Space/Space Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... that can fly on sunlight alone by the end of next year. The sail is literally pushed by photons. While they don't exactly give it much momentum to start with, they provide a continuous acceleration, ...

2. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   ... profile processors in Flash Player 10.1, will allow users of ARM processor based systems to view the same internet video content previously accessible only to users of X86 based systems." Samsung endorsed ...

3. Intel confirms top management shakeup

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 14 September 2009

   ... to micro-architecture planning, microprocessor and chipset development, SOC (system on a chip) and wireless teams managed by Steve Pawlowski, Sunil Shenoy, Rony Friedman, Rob Crooke and Raviv Melamed respectively, ...

4. AMD showcases Eyefinity multi-display technology

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 10 September 2009

   ... closely with Samsung Electronics to introduce ultra-thin bezel monitors and compatible stands which would would allow users to create their own scalable matrix. Bergman added that the next generation ...

5. World's quietest room opens for business

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 08 September 2009

   ... a novel material made of tiny diamonds that is set to create a new and greener way of producing electricity. The material's unique properties will enable the sun’s heat to be converted directly into ...

6. Nuclear fusion research helps advance computer chips

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 19 August 2009

   Researchers are adapting methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" for use in making smaller computer chips. West Lafayette, Indiana ...

7. Samsung expands LED lineup with the 8500 HDTV

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Thursday, 30 July 2009

   Samsung has expanded its LED lineup with the 1080p 8500 HDTV. The new 46 and 56-inch models are reportedly capable of a 7,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for "extreme" detail and image depth. San ...

8. Night warfare: moths jam bats' sonar

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 17 July 2009

   There's nothing new under the sun. Biologists have discovered that one type of moth jams the sonar of bats with bursts of its own ultrasound. Winston-Salem, NC - There's nothing new under the sun. Biologists ...

9. New type of black hole discovered

   (Space/Space Features)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   A new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, has been discovered. Toulouse, France - A new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, has been discovered. ...

10. Samsung moves ARM to 45nm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 28 June 2009

    Samsung has produced the first ARM11-based processor using its 45nm CMOS process.Seoul, Korea - Samsung has produced the first ARM11-based processor using its 45nm CMOS process. The S5P6440 is based ...

11. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... size power strip (not included) as well as store away your adapters, or hang a power squid. Samsung Impression for AT&T: This metallic blue device touts the nation’s first commercially available AMOLED ...

12. Samsung releases video wall system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    Korean electronics giant Samsung said it has released what it describes as an interactive video wall.Korean electronics giant Samsung said it has released what it describes as an interactive video wall. ...

13. AMD's Atom smasher - notebooks not netbooks and not yet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... Sunnyvale (CA) - In a vaporware announcement unlikely to cause Intel to lose much sleep, AMD says it is developing a netbook platform that features lower-power, smaller-size, better functionality and a ...

14. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 May 2009

    ... 6-9 months. And that achievement will be critical for the company to attract customers that compete with Intel. As the construction of new fabs will get more expensive (already today, only Intel and Samsung ...

15. AMD, Intel others sued over CPU execution

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 April 2009

    ... at the end of last week in a district court in Atlanta are Broadcom, Freescale, Infineon, IBM, ST Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments, Optimum Processing Solutions LLC claims that ...

16. Sun rolls out Intel Nehalem servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 April 2009

    Sun today announced six new servers and one new workstation based on Intel’s Xeon 5500-series processor, previously code-named Nehalem. Santa Clara (CA) – Sun today announced six new servers and one ...

17. Comcast begins offering higher speed Internet

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 04 March 2009

    ... Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Mount Hamilton, Mountain View, Saratoga, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale), portions of the East Bay (Alamo, Antioch, Bay Point, Bethel ...

18. The race to kill the MacBook Air is on

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... panels from Samsung, suggesting that the Windows PC maker could beat Apple's MacBook Air in the ultra-portable notebook category. Although Adamo has yet to materialize, a brief notebook appearance at the ...

19. Samsung hints to DDR4 with first validated 40 nm DRAM

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 04 February 2009

      Samsung today announced that it has developed and validated its first 40 nm DRAM chip, which are expected to consume 30% less power than current 50nm modules, and is an important step toward DDR4 development. ...

20. Ultrathin film could change the face of electronics

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 20 January 2009

    ... as though they are reading the paper in print via foldable displays. Jae-Young Choi of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Keun Soo Kim and Byung Hee Hong of Sungkyunkwan University describe ...

21. Apple's Mini DisplayPort to become a part of DisplayPort 1.2 specification

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is being pushed by Nvidia, AMD and Dell, which offer DP video cards and monitors. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft ...

22. Dell’s super-thin Adamo notebook: Displayport, Blu-ray and $3000

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 26 December 2008

    ... been ordering ultra-thin (and expensive) 3.5 mm (0.14”) panels from Samsung, which could drop the thickness of the Macbook Air’s lid (4.1 mm or 0.16”). There is virtually no information on the standard ...

23. Dell said to be buying 3.5 mm ultra-thin panels from LG Display and Samsung for Adamo notebooks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 25 December 2008

    Dell has recently placed orders for 3.5mm ultra-thin panels with LG Display and Samsung Electronics that are believed to be used in its upcoming Adamo notebooks, according to market sources. The ...

24. Up next for Apple: An ultrathin, ultralight $600 multitouch Mac netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... next-generation PowerVR SGX/VXD cores and will be manufactured by Samsung who already makes the SoC for current-gen iPhones. If Apple is already developing a SoC for the next iPhone, there is a chance ...

25. MIT shows amazing advancements in solar cell efficiency and cost

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

    ... the light would just bounce off away from the cell. Many computer simulations The MIT team took a very straight-forward approach in conducing this research. They looked at the amount of time sunlight ...

26. AMD delays Fusion processor to 2011

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 13 November 2008

    ... and a 32 nm core. AMD also announced five new processors including a quad-core notebook CPU and the "Orochi" desktop processor with “more than” four Bulldozer cores. Sunnyvale (CA) – In a rather unexpected ...

27. New solar cell material achieves almost 100% efficiency, could solve world-wide energy problems

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    Researchers at Ohio State University have accidentally discovered a new solar cell material capable of absorbing all of the sun's visible light energy. The material is comprised of a hybrid of plastics, ...

28. Samsung enters the U.S. notebook and netbook market

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Thursday, 16 October 2008

    Samsung Electronics America has announced its entrance in the US notebook market with a product lineup including notebooks in four categories – premium thin and light, all purpose, business, and desktop ...

29. Hot Import Nights – the ultimate photographer’s battleground Part I: Gear

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... California daylight sun) and 3. It makes you look like a complete noob that’s trying too hard.  To top it all off, these things are expensive because anything designed for photographers seems to command ...

30. Fascination space: NASA spacecraft ready to explore outer solar system

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 06 October 2008

    ... and capture images of processes taking place at the farthest reaches of the solar system – a region where the solar system meets interstellar space - nine billion miles from the sun. Extra: SLIDESHOW ...

31. Samsung Goes compact with P400 mobile projector

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 25 July 2008

    Smaller footprint. Better picture quality. Samsung claims to be offering up these qualities and others in its newly released P400 “ultra portable” projector. The Samsung P400 does weigh in at under ...

32. Samsung, Sun develop 'ultra-endurance' SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 July 2008

      Samsung and Sun Microsoystems today said that the two companies have developed a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid state drives that offers "much higher endurance levels ...

33. New Radeon 4800 twice as fast as 3800, AMD says

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... which would be at least 20% above the rating of Nvidia’s GT200 series.   Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD’s Radeon 4800 series launches a bit later than originally expected, but AMD promises a huge jump ...

34. Apple and Palm new targets in touchscreen patent crusade

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 24 June 2008

    ... Information Systems, Lenovo U.S., Panasonic  of North America; HTC America, Palm, Samsung Electronics America, Nokia and LG Electronics USA as defendants.   “The addition of these defendants ...

35. Toshiba preps 1.8” 160 GB hard drives for PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 June 2008

    ... is more than sufficient, but when installed in a PC that is designed to deliver a certain performance, this is certainly not the product category of choice. Samsung and Toshiba reacted last year in August ...

36. AMD’s best idea in years: Want to play?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 18 May 2008

    ... AMD PC and not an Intel system. Sunnyvale (CA) – There is not a whole lot coming out of AMD that can get you excited and there is a good chance that the company’s latest pitch, which does not even include ...

37. Solar cells hit new efficiency record at 23.2%

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 16 May 2008

    ... already shown interest” in the technology. Typical solar cells in production today are claimed to be about 15-17% efficient at converting sunlight into electrical energy. However, there are high-end, ...

38. FSB limits exposed: Intel CPUs don’t scale very well in UC Berkeley HPC test

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 April 2008

    ... environments. As reported first by HPC Wire, the scientists evaluated AMD’s Opteron (Santa Rosa), Intel’s Itanium 2 and Xeon (Clovertown), as well as the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Cell BE and Sun’s Niagara 2 processors. ...

39. Star wars: Hubble’s galaxy collision pictures

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 24 April 2008

    ... thousand billion times the luminosity of our Sun” and turn into the most rapidly star-forming galaxies in today’s Universe and are linked to the occurrence of quasars. Most of the 59 new Hubble images ...

40. Sun announces new T2 Sparc enterprise servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 April 2008

    Sun and Fujitsu announced two new enterprise servers based on UltraSparc T2 processors. The T5140 and T5240 models are promised to provide up to three times more performance than competitive RISC systems ...

41. 10 things you didn’t know about … Jon Peddie

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 23 March 2008

    ... Obama, Jen-Hsun Huang, Mel Brooks.    If I could go anywhere, or do anything, I would … go to Egypt to study the ancients, and then go to Italy and try and commit suicide by eating. A technology ...

42. TSMC invests $5 billion to keep AMD, Nvidia and Sun happy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 18 March 2008

    ... giant has produced semiconductors for all the major players in the industry, including AMD, Intel, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nvidia, Sony, Sun Microsystems and many more. But with the growing complexity of ...

43. Sun spills the beans on upcoming Intel/Microsoft announcement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 March 2008

    ... to do with a multi-core programming initiative in universities, a note sent by Sun to journalists late Monday confirms: Intel and Microsoft are approaching universities to educate a new generation of ...

44. Doritos commercial to be sent 42 light years into space

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 07 March 2008

    ... which is separated into several portions that are encoded in '1's and '0's each, is estimated to pass the Sun after 4:30 minutes and to leave our solar system after in just under nine minutes. The transmission ...

45. Atom, Alienware m15x, and the next iPhone: The future of Super Devices

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 07 March 2008

    ... capacity are being worked on by companies like Samsung who have become very aggressive in high capacity flash and micro drives, and both AMD/ATI and Nvidia are creating advanced small form factor graphics ...

46. Palit’s 9600GT – a different kind of review

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 27 February 2008

    ... also has a huge shroud that covers the heat pipes along with 2 DVI, 1 DisplayPort and 1 HDMI output. HDMI Output   We are fortunate to have a 56-inch Samsung rear-projection television set in our ...

47. Sandisk adds 32 GB SDHC flash cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 31 January 2008

    ... video.   Samsung said that it will be releasing the 8 GB and 16 GB models in March with prices of $100 and $180, respectively. The 32 GB is expected to debut in April and carry a $350 price tag. ...

48. AMD releases dual-GPU graphics card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 January 2008

    AMD returns to the high-end of the graphics card segment with the Radeon HD 3870 X2. Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD returns to the high-end of the graphics card segment with the Radeon HD 3870 X2. It has ...

49. Is the Consumer Electronics Show on its last leg?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 January 2008

    ... well for their first year at CES) and lusted for the new Asus Lamborghini. On TVs, the Samsung OLED sets were stunning and well worth the time to see what is likely the next generation of TVs. Samsung ...

50. CES 2008: Samsung OLED TVs coming in 2010

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Thursday, 10 January 2008

    Samsung Electronics is showcasing two (14.1-and 31-inch) organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs in addition to an ultra-slim 52-inch LCD TV and quadruple full-HD LCD TV at CES 20087, with Samsung stating ...