News About Semiconductor Technology 11-MAR-10 en-us Madison WI (SPX) Mar 01, 2010 - Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.]]> Hanover, Germany (AFP) March 2, 2010 - It has happened to almost everyone. You are sitting on a train or a bus and someone right next to you is annoyingly shouting into his or her mobile phone.]]> Madison WI (SPX) Mar 01, 2010 - Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.]]> San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 - Maxwell Technologies a leading developer and manufacturer of innovative, cost-effective energy storage and power delivery solutions, today introduced its new K2 Series large cell BOOSTCAP ultracapacitors.]]> San Francisco (AFP) Feb 23, 2010 - Intel chief executive Paul Otellini on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to invest 3.5 billion dollars in innovative US businesses and get bright college graduates into technology jobs.]]> Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 22, 2010 - Mountains of discarded computers and mobile phones could soon pose serious threats to public health and the environment in developing countries without swift action, the UN said Monday.]]> Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 17, 2010 - A simple one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces could facilitate use of the promising material for future electronic devices. The doping technique can also be used to increase conductivity in graphene nanoribbons used for interconnects.]]> Tallahassee FL (SPX) Feb 16, 2010 - Two of The Florida State University's most accomplished scientists recently joined forces on a collaborative research project that has yielded groundbreaking results involving an unusual family of crystalline minerals. Their findings could lay the groundwork for future researchers seeking to develop a new generation of computer chips and other information-storage devices that can hold vast amounts of data and be strongly encrypted for security purposes.]]> Princeton NJ (SPX) Feb 12, 2010 - A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or "qubits."]]> Taipei (AFP) Feb 10, 2010 - Wistron Corp., a spin-off from giant PC maker Acer, is facing a simple choice: Diversify or see profit margins slowly vanish.]]>