Qualcomm is claiming that its next generation of Snapdragon chips will bring greater power to phones than today’s Sony PS3 gaming consoles. The Snapdragon S4 ‘Krait’ devices set to be launched at the end of 2011. Qualcomm has said that the S4 devices will include 28nm quad core processors. The Krait Snapdragon S4 chip, with …
1. The second unit at China’s Ling Ao II nuclear power plant entered commercial operation on 7 August, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Co (CGNPC) announced. The 1080 MWe Chinese-designed CPR-1000 pressurised water reactor (PWR) achieved first criticality on 25 February and was connected to the grid on 3 May. CGNPC said that the unit entered …
Embedded after the jump is my 2011 Singularity University presentation. Latest Developments and Current Capabilities in Nanotechnology. I went over the following areas – 2D and 3D Nanoscale patterning and manufacturing – Quantum dots – Self Assembly – Memristors – Sensors and electronics in living cells – Carbon nanotubes and graphene – Advice on nanotechnology …
This scanning electron microscope close-up shows how the components of a nanodiamond device are cantilevered above a surface of the electrical insulator silicon dioxide. (Davidson Lab) A team of electrical engineers at Vanderbilt University has developed all the basic components needed to create microelectronic devices out of thin films of nanodiamond. They have created diamond …
Oblique View of Warm Season Flows in Newton Crater An image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling shows flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars’ Newton crater. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. Dark, …
1. The reactor pressure vessel for unit 4 of South Korea’s Shin-Kori nuclear power plant has been put in place. The unit is the second APR-1400 to be built and its schedule follows the first, Shin-Kori 3, by one year. First concrete for Shin-Kori 4 was poured in August 2009 and the APR-1400 unit is …
SPACEX founder answers audience questions about Mars, heavy lift launch, crew capsules, the Falcon 9, the Dragon capsule and more during his American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics keynote address on August 1st 2011. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
Controlling arbitrary quantum operations using additional degrees of freedom. (a) Logic circuit in which quantum operation O is implemented on a register of qubits (target register), conditional on the logical state of a single control qubit. (b) Our approach to implementing the circuit in (a). The target information carriers are four dimensional systems with logical …
Effect of electron temperature on structural degradation. By firing a series of laser beams into rubidium gas cooled to 70 millionths of a kelvin – close to absolute zero electrons are slowly released and allows them to control which part of the rubidium gas they target, producing specific shapes in the electron cloud that’s released. …
VR-zone analyzes the next generation AMD GPU AMD’s next generation GPU architecture was shown at their Fusion Summit a month ago, and expected to materialixe initially in the Radeon HD7000 series a 28 nm process before yearend 2011. The ‘next gen’ AMD GPU is even more of a ‘graphics-enabled vector processor’ than the Nvidia Fermi …
Capillary action: The transparent circle in the center of this image is a nanomaterial designed to mimic the protein VEGF. Here, it has enhanced the growth of blood vessels in the membrane from a chicken egg after three days. Credit: Matthew Webber MIT Technology Review – A synthetic material may help to repair tissue after …