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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “semiconductors”

 

• Nvidias Backing Its Big Game Talks

  
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  NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Each time Nvidia is discussed its always in the context of the companys ability to change its chip strategy. The Street doubts Nvidia can successfully transition itself from a PC-dependent graphics chip company to one that can compete on the big stage with Qualcomm and Broadcom in the ...
  4 days ago

• Atmel Corporation (US): strong trend, buy

  
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  Company profile: Atmel Corporation (ATML) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets various non-volatile memory and logic integrated circuits using its proprietary technology. The Company’s devices are used in products for telecommunications, computers, networking, image processing, industrial and military ...
  4 days ago

• Nvidia Q1 Profit Rises 29 Percent as Revenue, Margins Strengthen

  
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  Nvidia Corp.’s fiscal first-quarter earnings rose 29 percent as the chip maker posted stronger revenue and margins. For the current quarter, the company forecast revenue of $975 million, plus or minus 2 percent, implying a range of between $955.5 million and $994.5 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters most ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cold atoms for quantum technology

  
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  Researchers from the National Physical Laboratory, University of Strathclyde, Imperial College London and University of Glasgow have developed a portable way to produce ultracold atoms for quantum technology and quantum information processing. Their research has been published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spintronics: Scientists find new magic in magnetic material

  
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  From powerful computers to super-sensitive medical and environmental detectors that are faster, smaller and use less energy—yes, we want them, but how do we get them? In research that is helping to lay the groundwork for the electronics of the future, University of Delaware scientists have confirmed the presence of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scientists enhance light emission in 2D semiconductors by a factor of 100

  
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  The mention of a two-dimensional material with excellent electrical and optical properties may first bring to mind graphene. However, this description also fits another class of materials called transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Although TMDs in bulk form have been studied for decades—before graphene was even ...
  2 weeks ago

• Other materials stories that may be of interest

  
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  New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO 2 Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster, while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. “This could make power generation from natural gas both ...
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• Ambiq Micro Continues Growth From Austin Base

  
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  Sarah Schmid When we last caught up with University of Michigan spin-off company Ambiq Micro , it was moving its microcontroller development operation to Austin, TX. Co-founder Scott Hanson told AnnArbor.com at the time that the reason behind the move was Texas’ wealth of talent. Of course, it doesn’t hurt ...
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• On the Impact of Paul Otellini’s CEO Years at Intel

  
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  Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini is retiring in May 2013. His 40-year career at Intel now ending, it’s a timely opportunity to look at his impact on Intel. Intel As Otellini Took Over In September 2004 when it was announced that Paul Otellini would take over as CEO, Intel was #46 on the Fortune 100 list, and had ...
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• Thermoelectric materials that convert heat to electricity and vice-versa

  
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  Thermoelectric materials can be used to turn waste heat into electricity or to provide refrigeration without any liquid coolants, and a research team from the University of Michigan has found a way to nearly double the efficiency of a particular class of them that’s made with organic semiconductors. Organic ...
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• Microwave oven cooks up solar cell material

  
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  University of Utah metallurgists used an old microwave oven to produce a nanocrystal semiconductor rapidly using cheap, abundant and less toxic metals than other semiconductors. They hope it will be used for more efficient photovoltaic solar cells and LED lights, biological sensors and systems to convert waste heat to ...
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• Organic Thermoelectric Material With Double the Efficiency

  
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  A research team from the University of Michigan (UM) has found a way to nearly double the efficiency of a particular class of thermoelectric material.  Thermoelectric materials can be used to turn waste heat into electricity or to provide refrigeration without any liquid coolants and the new class of them is made ...
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• Tiny, Winged Manueverable Robotic Insects Created, Tested

  
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  Robotic insects, with a U.S. penny for scale (Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Harvard University) Engineers at Harvard University in Massachusetts developed robotic insects with flapping wings, using a microfabrication process that makes it possible to produce these devices in large numbers. The team from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mobile, Arm servers, and other challenges facing new Intel’s new chief exec

  
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  The six-month search is over. Intel’s board has picked Brian Krzanich, current chief operating officer, as the chip maker’s new chief executive, replacing Paul Otellini who left Intel after 8 years, Reuters has reported . As Chris Nuttall wrote at the time of Mr Otellini’s exit, Mr Krzanich was an early ...
  3 weeks ago

• AMD Spikes 14 Percent: Rumors of Intel Buy, Acer Laptops, Xbox

  
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  Shares of Advanced Micro Devices just had a big pop in heavy volume, lifting off of earlier gains and rising 40 cents, or over 14 percent, to $3.22, and as high as $3.28 just before that. Shares are experiencing cumulative volume today of 73.7 million shares, versus a 30-day average of 16.74 million. Read the rest ...
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• Insect Eyes Inspire Multiple Digital Camera Lens Design

  
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  Hemispheric lens array configured in electronic circuits (University of Illinois, Urbana) Engineers at University of Illinois in Urbana designed a new type of digital camera lens based on the multiple-lens design found in the eyes of bees and dragonflies. The team led by Illinois engineering professor John Rogers, ...
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• Half wave rectifier operation

  
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  Rectifier: A rectifier is a device that converts alternating current into direct current. Half wave rectifier: In this rectifier, the PN junction diode is connected to an input AC supply with the help of a primary coil, which will induce an emf in the secondary coil and ultimately the output is taken across the load…
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• Lab-On-A-Chip Diagnoses Multiple Tropical Diseases

  
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  The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s main science funding agency, and Singapore clinical chip manufacturer Veredus Laboratories unveiled a new automated lab-on-a-chip device that can diagnose 13 tropical diseases from a single blood sample. Veredus is a subsidiary of ...
  4 weeks ago

• QCOM Off 6%: Bulls Defend ‘Solid’ Trends, Bears See Rising Cost Pressures

  
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  Shares of Qualcomm (QCOM) are down $4.03, or 6%, at $61.97, after the company last night beat fiscal Q2 revenue expectations and raised its year revenue view, on higher handset expectations, but offered a lighter view on profit for Q3. Today the Street is largely arguing that Qualcomm didn’t have a bigger revenue ...
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• This Morning: Microsoft Keeps Rising, FIO Surges, QCOM, CTXS Slump

  
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  Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech: Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) continue their recent rally, rising 91 cents, or almost 3%, to $32.67, with no immediate news. The stock’s up about 8% in the last five days. The shares got a lift yesterday from the announcement yesterday of a [...]
  4 weeks ago

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