Intel has developed a method to marry silicon and photonics, potentially increasing the speed computer chips communicate with each other. Photonics, that branch of physics that deals with transmitting information using light waves, is seen as the...
We will be able to integrate photonics a lot more efficiency, and finally get die-to-die optical interconnects, as well as on-chip lasers and sensors. We've now got layers only four or five atoms thick, and we can't scale past three, two, one, zero.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) crusade for low-cost PCs for developing nations is another step closer to the assembly line. The goal of the project, unveiled in 2005 by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, is to get the PCs into the hands of...
It preferred to spend millions on e-government and encourage the population to achieve a critical mass, a fairy tale virtual world where the public sector and the population met to share the prime minister's vision of 'UK Online'.
These discussions were based on a vision that the online businesses of Microsoft and Yahoo! Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the links below… While online advertising growth continues, there are...
The Thai ICT PCs were originally available only with Linux. Linux PCs are seen as a threat to Windows partly because buyers are considered likely to replace the operating system with pirated copies of Windows.