'Sticky' silicon could speed data
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Data speeds could get a boost from Intel breakthrough into processors that make and manipulate light.
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A new memory technology, programmable metallization cell, could be 1000 times more efficient than flash memory.
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A novel nanolaser could cram more data onto a hard disk.
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A look at some of the technologies that could allow the silicon industry to deliver faster, cheaper chips.
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Smaller, more efficient memory could double chip performance for gamers and multimedia use by 2008.
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New technology could mean superfast data transfer inside the computer.
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IBM says it has found the answer: New technology that squeezes more memory onto a slice of silicon. By the Associated Press.
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IBM has found a way to stabilize the magnetic orientation of an atom -- a technique called magnetic anisotropy -- and are experimenting with molecular switches, which could be used to store information and would lead to super-fast, super-tiny computer chips.
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For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines' silicon brains. With each generation, speeds jumped and prices dropped.
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The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law
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Working with the basic material of computer chips, Intel Corp. researchers have constructed an all-silicon laser that could lead to computers one day harnessing light waves rather than electrical currents to shuttle data swiftly.
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Its memory-chip breakthrough could lead to new products.
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Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly.
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A chip the size of a fingernail and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second is unveiled by Intel.
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Transistor radios tinier than a grain  of sand, made using nanotechnology, can not only tune in to the  traffic report, but may end up outperforming current  silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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By John Markoff  Scientists at IBM and two partner companies have developed a promising material that they believe will lead to a new kind of computer memory chip able to meet the growing appetite for storing digital music, pictures and video.