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Download Free technews From viewzoft On Monday, Corsair has launched the highly robust line of USB 2.0 flash drives, called ‘Flash Survivor’. Developed and engineered to be the industry’s strongest USB drive, Flash Survivor is water-resistant, CNC-milled aluminum encased, and shock-proof to safely store user’s information and files in the most demanding environments. Packed with unique features and the best price/performance solution in the market - Flash Survivor is available right away in two variations: Flash Survivor GT 8GB –$129.99 USD MSRP Flash Survivor 4GB – $59.99 USD MSRP Jack Peterson, VP of Marketing at Corsair said, “Corsair has built the Flash Survivor family specifically for customers with a ‘Bring It On!’ attitude – for someone who doesn’t want to worry if his/her equipment can stand up to the active ( Read More )
Download Free technews From viewzoft Sennheiser has launched the EM 3732 Twin Receiver, which has a 90MHz switching bandwidth. The EM 3732 incorporates several interesting features, such as a wide 90MHz switching bandwidth, an infrared interface, six user-selectable fixed frequency banks, one user bank with up to sixty channels that can be programmed in increments of 5kHz, and the ability to automatically search for free frequencies within any frequency bank, to name a few. “The RF spectrum is getting ever more crowded, but the EM 3732 is so flexible that the user will have sufficient alternative options to avoid interference, especially for multi-channel systems,” noted Sven Boetcher, Product Manager for Professional Systems. The receiver features six user-selectable fixed frequency banks and one user bank with up to sixty channels that can be programmed in increments of 5kHz. Within a frequency bank the ( Read More )
Download Free technews From viewzoft NEW YORK - Computer chips, it seems, work better if theyre more like Swiss cheese than American cheese. ADVERTISEMENT Chips with minuscule holes in them can run faster or use less energy, IBM Corp. said in announcing Thursday a novel way to create them — potentially one of the most significant advances in chip manufacturing in years. To create these tiny holes, the computer company has harnessed a plastic-like material that spontaneously forms into a sieve-like structure. The holes have a width of 20 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, placing the method in the much-vaunted field of nanotechnology. "To our knowledge, this is the first time anyone has used nanoscale self-assembled materials to build things that machines arent capable of doing," said John Kelly, IBMs vice president of development. Kelly said molecules in the material fall into a defined pattern similar to how snowflakes form into symmetrical six-sided shapes. IBM said the technology could be added to existing manufacturing lines and applied to current chips, boosting performance by 35 percent or cutting power consumption by the same percentage. It expects to start using the technique in 2009, first on chips used in IBMs servers and later to chips it makes for other companies, including possibly the Cell processor used in Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news).s PlayStation 3. "Its a tremendous breakthrough," said Richard Doherty, research director at Envisioneering Group, an analysis firm. "Its likely to save energy and increase chip speeds more than any other single advance in the last few years." The holes alleviate a problem that has loomed for the semiconductor industry: As chips have shrunk in size, boosting their speed and efficiency, theyve increasingly become susceptible to electricity leaking between their closely spaced wires through the intervening insulator, usually glass. The most advanced chip technology in large-scale commercial use, which uses circuits 65 nanometers apart, loses almost half of its power to leakage, Doherty said. The leakage not only wastes power but also slows down the processor. Ideally, the glass would be replaced with vacuum, a better insulator, but removing the glass away in the right places hasnt been possible with current techniques. If the glass was simply etched away, the resulting "ditches" running along the wires would simply be filled in by the next layer of insulating glass applied, according to IBM Fellow Dan Edelstein, chief scientist on the project. IBMs polymer technique sidesteps that problem. First, the self-assembling material is applied on top of the glass, forming the tiny holes. The chip is then exposed to a gas that seeps through the material as if it were a stencil, etching away the underlying glass to form small holes in the top surface, and larger, continuous gaps between the wires. Another layer of glass is applied in a vacuum chamber. Because the holes in the topmost existing glass layer are small, the newly applied layer of glass doesnt seep into the underlying cavities. Instead, it seals them off, with a vacuum inside. The technique was invented at IBMs Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., and the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, N.Y. It was adapted for commercial use by the University at Albany and IBMs Semiconductor Research and Development Center in East Fishkill, N.Y. ( Read More )
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