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New magnet breakthrough could revolutionize RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and indirectly end shortage

Sayan Sen — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:30:01 +0000

A new magnetic material breakthrough has been achieved by scientists, which can indirectly lead to the end of the current memory and storage crisis. Read more...

Breakthrough means Google's internet-delivering balloons are much closer to market launch

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:00:01 +0000

Google has only been trialing its Project Loon balloons. But the internet-delivering devices may soon become a commercial reality thanks to a recent breakthrough involving machine-learning. Read more...

Watch Microsoft's Devices and Networking Summit live right here

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 13 May 2015 10:24:41 +0000

You can follow along live right here as Microsoft Research's Devices and Networking Summit kicks off. The show will focus on the future of communications, and technology breakthroughs. Read more...

SSD breakthrough means 300% speed boost, 60% less power usage... even on old drives

James Walker — Fri, 23 May 2014 19:33:37 +0000

A Japanese research team studying the NAND chips used in solid state drives has discovered a way to boost the speed of the devices by up to 300% with nothing more than a simple firmware update. Read more...

Hackers claim iPhone 2.0 breakthrough

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:14:02 +0000

It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday it has figured out a way... Read more...

AMD claims memory controller breakthrough

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:51:05 +0000

AMD has unveiled a new memory controller system which it claims will double the memory capacity on its high-end server and workstation systems. The G3MX technology will target memory intensive systems such as virtualisation servers... Read more...

Intel Claims Breakthrough With 40Gbps Optical Chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:45:50 +0000

Intel Corp. researchers are a step closer to creating chips that transmit data at high speeds using light instead of electrons, but products based on the technology appear to remain over the horizon. On Wednesday,... Read more...

Breakthrough in Blue Lasers Yields 10X Write Times

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:46:39 +0000

Nichia Corporation of Japan has announced a new blue-violet laser that can fill up a 54GB double-layer disc at more than 10X record speed, compared to typical 2x and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format disc recorders. In... Read more...

Motorola makes Linux breakthrough with RIZR Z6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:51:29 +0000

Motorola's first Linux handset for the US market, the RIZR Z6, is also likely to be the first in the industry to run an "open" operating system - Linux, Symbian OS or Windows on a... Read more...

Breakthrough in the Future of Quantum Computing

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:06 +0000

A University of Utah physicist took a step toward developing a superfast computer based on the weird reality of quantum physics by showing it is feasible to read data stored in the form of the... Read more...

Company claims holographic disk breakthrough

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:48:22 +0000

InPhase Technologies reckons it can squeeze 200 gigabits on a single square inch of optical disk. This company showed off its holographic prototype at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas this... Read more...

ATI, NVIDIA Expect PCI Express Orders Breakthrough in Q3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:13:35 +0000

The two major designers of graphics processing units are likely to significantly rise the amount of PCI Express graphics chips this quarter, but without ceasing to supply their AGP 8x products. The increase may be... Read more...

Teleportation breakthrough made

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:15:55 +0000

Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time. The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem in the US and Austria. The ability to transfer key... Read more...

Intel Israel's breakthrough revolutionizes chip development

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:45:32 +0000

Israeli researchers at Intel have achieved a breakthrough in chip development that will enable computers to operate at 10 times the current speed. In a development that promises to change the world of... Read more...

Low powered LCD screens create Intel notebook breakthrough

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:43:16 +0000

Today's Economic news reports that Intel and Toppoly have together developed LCD panels that will only draw three watts. The move is a breakthrough for Intel and the rest of us, because one of the... Read more...

New MSN Provides Breakthrough Offerings for Advertisers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:33:57 +0000

REDMOND, Wash. -- Jan. 8, 2004 -- Consumers hooked on the high-speed Internet aren't the only ones who received a belated holiday gift with today's launch of the new version of MSN® Internet services. The... Read more...

Fujitsu makes 3G avatar-ready breakthrough

Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:54:01 +0000

Fujitsu has teamed up with NTT DoCoMo to produce advanced 3G handsets which offer animated characters for video conversations. The FOMA 900i series feature 'Chara-den' which are avatars that hide the sender's... Read more...

Medal Of Honor Breakthrough Patch 2.40b

Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:13:46 +0000

Six new Multiplayer skins have been added: US - General Wheathers US - II Corps Tank Commander US - II Corps Infantry UK - 10th Corps UK - 8th Army IT - Paracadutista... Read more...

Ethernet breakthrough claimed by PowerDsine

Darren Bolton — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:57:10 +0000

Power-over-Ethernet chip to reduce network switch PoE components by nearly 90 per cent Power over Ethernet (PoE) company PowerDsine will start commerical shipments in January of a chip that it claims will... Read more...

Sun present chip-design breakthrough

Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:11:17 +0000

Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. researchers will report on Tuesday that they have devised a way to dramatically increase the speed at which semiconductors can talk to each other. By placing... Read more...

Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough videos

Marcel Klum — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:50:07 +0000

Three game play clips for Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Breakthrough have been added to the Video Clips section on the Official Breakthrough website. Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Breakthrough is the new... Read more...

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault breakthrough demo

Marcel Klum — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:33:04 +0000

In Medal of Honor Allied Assault from Electronic Arts, players will assume the role of Lt. Mike Powell, member of the famed 1st Ranger Battalion who gets recruited by the OSS and battles through over... Read more...

MoH: AA Breakthrough Screens

Marcel Klum — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:43:07 +0000

The multiplayer game has been enhanced with the addition of Liberation Mode. In this mode, defeated players must be rescued by surviving teammates to continue the fight. In addition, players can drive tanks, artillery spotters... Read more...

Medal of Honor Breakthrough demo

Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:36:05 +0000

EA reveals that a multiplayer demo for the next Medal of Honor Allied Assault expansion is due out in early September. Electronic Arts has informed us that a two-map multiplayer demo... Read more...

New Itanium a breakthrough for Intel?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:56:42 +0000

Madison, the third member of the Itanium chip family, is Intel's best shot to date at taking on Sun Microsystems and IBM in the market for high-end server chips. If the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker... Read more...

AMD claims low power Bluetooth breakthrough

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:03:57 +0000

CHIP FIRM Advanced Micro Devices said it has designed a flash device which will speed the adoption of Bluetooth and GPS modules in personal digital appliances (PDAs). The eight megabit AM 29SL800D is a 1.8... Read more...

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Breakthrough shots

Marcel Klum — Sat, 03 May 2003 07:41:05 +0000

As U.S. Army Sergeant John Baker, players join the battle at Kasserine Pass in North Africa, race to capture Messina in Sicily, and finally repel the German army at the historic battle of Monte Battaglia... Read more...

Violet laser breakthrough builds Blu-Ray momentum

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:14:26 +0000

SUMITOMI SAID it has started to mass produce two inch low dislocation gallium nitride (GaN) substrates, an essential component to violet lasers for use in Blu-Ray and Advanced Optical Disc machines. The company said it... Read more...

AMD claims transistor breakthrough

Thu, 03 Apr 2003 02:01:06 +0000

Chip maker AMD claims to have become the first in the semiconductor industry to achieve critical research milestones for next-generation transistor development. In lab work to be fully unveiled in June, AMD researchers say... Read more...

Carbon nanotube breakthrough claimed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:47:53 +0000

NANOTUBE TECHNOLOGY will feature in future televisions, NKK Corporation suggests, having developed a carbon nanotube shaped like a piece of tape. The company claims its tubes are pliable and are likely to be incorporated into... Read more...

Japanese make human-sized robot breakthrough

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:48:28 +0000

THE JAPANESE National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology said it has created a humanoid like robot that can carry 6KG and can get up and lie down. The robot, called the HRP-2, is... Read more...

Apple chip breakthrough confounds physicists

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:40:49 +0000

A remarkable achievement by Motorola in the new PowerMac computers promises to set the scientific world alight. Apple claims that "the faster-than-light processor speed gets an additional boost with an advanced cache... Read more...

Chip performance could be doubled thanks to new breakthrough

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:22:53 +0000

A group of researchers based in Britain have managed to find new approaches to hardware addition and multiplication, two of the most basic functions of many modern-day chips. The new discoveries, it has been claimed,... Read more...

Breakthrough in Cross-Platform Game Delivery

Steven Parker — Sun, 07 Jul 2002 08:47:32 +0000

Thanks my mate Timan who sent this to me while looking for Eskimo Bob.. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo, TransGaming Technologies and Transitive Technologies will be unveiling a game-porting technology that can allow Windows-based x86... Read more...

Bell Labs Unveils Chip-Shrinking Breakthrough

Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:00:10 +0000

Using a scanning transmission electron microscope, the team of researchers was able to directly image an individual 'antimony dopant' atom within crystalline silicon. Scientists at Bell Labs announced Thursday that they have... Read more...

Intel with new breakthrough transister design

Mon, 26 Nov 2001 01:43:03 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. INTC.O has devised a new structure for transistors -- the tiny switches that make up semiconductors -- in a development it said could lead to microprocessors that run at... Read more...

Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough

Mon, 08 Oct 2001 10:58:26 +0000

Chip packaging is arcane, often overlooked and absolutely crucial to the future of the semiconductor industry. Intel will tomorrow unveil an entirely new design for the silicon and metal vehicles that connect... Read more...

Australia breakthrough brings computers into new light

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:13:05 +0000

Australian researchers have developed a technique to convert electrical signals on silicon into light, which some suggest could spark the next revolution in computing. Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have... Read more...