Tag: breakthrough

Hardware

Mechanical arm could spark memory breakthrough

By Stewart Mitchell | Mar 29, 2011 | Comment Now

Researchers have grand designs for Flash replacement technology.

Software

Researchers make programming breakthrough

By Nick Farrell | Feb 27, 2009 | Comment Now

Researchers have developed a software tool which makes the translation of code for global markets faster.

Software

Open Source makes historic UK breakthrough

By Mark Ballard | Sep 23, 2008 | Comment Now

Open Source companies have been granted official permission to supply software to the UK public sector for the first time in British history.

Hardware

Breakthrough in Trend Micro/Barracuda showdown

By Iain Thomson | Jun 26, 2008 | Comment Now

A search through the open source community has provided a breakthrough that could settle the ongoing patent dispute between Trend Micro and Barracuda Networks..

Storage

Hynix claims Flash memory breakthrough

By Simon Burns | Jun 5, 2008 | Comment Now

A more compact form of Flash memory will help to cut prices of the storage chips by 30 percent, according to Korean media reports..

Hardware

MIT engineers claim fuel cell breakthrough

May 19, 2008 | Comment Now

A group of engineers at MIT has developed a new type of membrane for one type of fuel cell which they claim could improve power output by more than 50 percent..

Hardware

Big Blue planning HD video breakthrough

By Shaun Nichols | Apr 14, 2008 | Comment Now

IBM is planning to introduce a new encoding system that will allow video providers to stream HD video at a lean 3Mbps..

Hardware

Researchers claim solar cell breakthrough

By Robert Jaques | Mar 4, 2008 | Comment Now

An international research collaboration has developed a technology that could dramatically improve the efficiency of solar cells..

Hardware

Nanostructure film promises solar breakthrough

By Robert Jaques | Jan 10, 2008 | Comment Now

Two nanotech methods for engineering solar cell materials are showing "particular promise", US academics reported today..

Hardware

Stanford boffins promise battery breakthrough

By Matt Chapman | Dec 21, 2007 | Comment Now

Researchers at Stanford University claim to be able to extend the battery life of lithium-ion batteries by a factor of 10 using silicon nanowires..

Hardware

Boffins in a spin over quantum breakthrough

By Robert Jaques | Oct 9, 2007 | Comment Now

US boffins have unveiled a material which they believe could be as important to next-generation quantum computing as silicon is to the computers of today.

Hardware

Breakthrough revolutionises microchip patterning

By Robert Jaques | Sep 3, 2007 | Comment Now

US research engineers claim to have developed a low-cost technique for patterning microchips.

Software

US boffins claim graphics processing breakthrough

By Robert Jaques | Aug 14, 2007 | Comment Now

US computer scientists have developed a technique that allows the generation of highly complex images like smoke-filled bars and smog-choked cityscapes without the computational...