http://hardware.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2010-02-10T12:10:14+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://hardware.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/YlYo1LuKjrE/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries VindictivePantz sends word that the Windows 7 team has posted a new blog entry discussing their conclusions about the reported Windows 7 battery failures. "To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state. In every case we have been able to identify the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement. ...every single indication we have regarding the reports we've seen are simply Windows 7 reporting the state of the battery using this new feature and we're simply seeing batteries that are not performing above the designated threshold. ... We are as certain as we can be that we have addressed the root cause and concerns of this report, but we will continue to monitor the situation."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/196235"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WAgEyL0IuPO7t13XCCLyI9VlD8c/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WAgEyL0IuPO7t13XCCLyI9VlD8c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WAgEyL0IuPO7t13XCCLyI9VlD8c/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WAgEyL0IuPO7t13XCCLyI9VlD8c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/YlYo1LuKjrE" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T21:20:00+00:00 bug epidemic-of-noticing hardware 239 239,232,191,145,49,32,20 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/S5dTGj83x_E/NVIDIA-Shows-Off-Optimus-Switchable-Graphics-For-Notebooks Vigile writes "Transformers jokes aside, NVIDIA's newest technology offering hopes to radically change the way notebook computers are built and how customers use them. The promise of both extended battery life and high performance mobile computing has seemed like a pipe dream, and even the most recent updates to 'switchable graphics' left much to be desired in terms of the user experience. Having both an integrated and discrete graphics chip in your notebook does little good if you never switch between the two. Optimus allows the system to seamlessly and instantly change between IGP and discrete NVIDIA GPUs based on the task being run, including games, GPU encoding or Flash video playback. Using new software and hardware technology, notebooks using Optimus can power on and pass control to the GPU in a matter of 300ms and power both the GPU and PCIe lanes completely off when not in use. This can be done without being forced to reboot or even close out your applications, making it a hands-free solution for the customer."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1627231/NVIDIA-Shows-Off-Optimus-Switchable-Graphics-For-Notebooks?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1627231"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1627231/NVIDIA-Shows-Off-Optimus-Switchable-Graphics-For-Notebooks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KKdyRleOM3iMSxrbsT_1rMIarE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KKdyRleOM3iMSxrbsT_1rMIarE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KKdyRleOM3iMSxrbsT_1rMIarE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KKdyRleOM3iMSxrbsT_1rMIarE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/S5dTGj83x_E" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-09T17:49:00+00:00 graphics that's-some-prime-namespace hardware 97 97,93,81,66,17,9,4 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1627231/NVIDIA-Shows-Off-Optimus-Switchable-Graphics-For-Notebooks?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/CrqhohJrTIU/Hardware-TPM-Hacked BiggerIsBetter writes "Christopher Tarnovsky has pulled off the 'near impossible' TPM hardware hack. We all knew it was only a matter of time; this is why you shouldn't entrust your data to proprietary solutions. From the article: 'The technique can also be used to tap text messages and email belonging to the user of a lost or stolen phone. Tarnovsky said he can't be sure, however, whether his attack would work on TPM chips made by companies other than Infineon. Infineon said it knew this type of attack was possible when it was testing its chips. But the company said independent tests determined that the hack would require such a high skill level that there was a limited chance of it affecting many users. ... The Trusted Computing Group, which sets standards on TPM chips, called the attack "exceedingly difficult to replicate in a real-world environment."'"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1557204/Hardware-TPM-Hacked?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1557204"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1557204/Hardware-TPM-Hacked?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MomcJmgVZpd5vXoCO6hXsDHMgJA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MomcJmgVZpd5vXoCO6hXsDHMgJA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MomcJmgVZpd5vXoCO6hXsDHMgJA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MomcJmgVZpd5vXoCO6hXsDHMgJA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/CrqhohJrTIU" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-09T16:45:00+00:00 hardhack matter-of-time hardware 307 307,301,244,209,39,20,9 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1557204/Hardware-TPM-Hacked?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/qoh9OHfRlGQ/IBM-Releases-Power7-Processor Dan Jones writes "As discussed here last year, IBM has made good on its promise to release the Power7 processor (and servers) in the first half of 2010. The Power7 processor adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up-time, according to Big Blue. Power7 chips will run between 3.0GHz and 4.14GHz and will come with four, six, or eight cores. The chips are being made using the 45-nm process technology. New Power7 servers (up to 64 cores for now) are said to deliver twice the performance of older Power6 systems, but are four times more energy efficient. Power7 servers will run AIX and Linux." And reader shmG notes Intel's release of a new Itanium server processor after two years of delays. The Power7 specs would seem to put the new Intel chip in the shade.<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0053248/IBM-Releases-Power7-Processor?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/0053248"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0053248/IBM-Releases-Power7-Processor?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dGi2cZ856trXacTBBRMlekU13a0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dGi2cZ856trXacTBBRMlekU13a0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dGi2cZ856trXacTBBRMlekU13a0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dGi2cZ856trXacTBBRMlekU13a0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/qoh9OHfRlGQ" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T04:40:00+00:00 ibm of-cores hardware 223 223,220,177,141,47,30,17 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0053248/IBM-Releases-Power7-Processor?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/OqhV-iTYwSM/Google-Shooting-For-Smartphone-Universal-Translator nikki4 writes to tell us that in giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is aiming for new translator software that will provide instant translation of foreign languages. "The company has already created an automatic system for translating text on computers, which is being honed by scanning millions of multi-lingual websites and documents. So far it covers 52 languages, adding Haitian Creole last week. Google also has a voice recognition system that enables phone users to conduct web searches by speaking commands into their phones rather than typing them in. Now it is working on combining the two technologies to produce software capable of understanding a caller&rsquo;s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/2014206/Google-Shooting-For-Smartphone-Universal-Translator?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/08/2014206"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/2014206/Google-Shooting-For-Smartphone-Universal-Translator?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tokUN_1lKgoKg4o936OR7rQddzk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tokUN_1lKgoKg4o936OR7rQddzk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tokUN_1lKgoKg4o936OR7rQddzk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tokUN_1lKgoKg4o936OR7rQddzk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/OqhV-iTYwSM" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2010-02-08T22:12:00+00:00 communications ford-why-is-this-fish-in-my-ear hardware 173 173,173,140,107,27,18,12 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/2014206/Google-Shooting-For-Smartphone-Universal-Translator?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/yLawwSYf9Yg/New-Material-Transforms-Car-Bodies-Into-Batteries MikeChino writes "As battery manufacturers race to produce more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, some scientists are looking to make the cars themselves a power source. Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery. Once perfected, scientists hope the substance will replace standard car bodies, making vehicles up to 15 percent lighter and significantly extending the range of electric vehicles."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/182245/New-Material-Transforms-Car-Bodies-Into-Batteries?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/08/182245"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/182245/New-Material-Transforms-Car-Bodies-Into-Batteries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znO0gyBc0ulFM7bm9DIOaChJWug/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znO0gyBc0ulFM7bm9DIOaChJWug/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znO0gyBc0ulFM7bm9DIOaChJWug/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znO0gyBc0ulFM7bm9DIOaChJWug/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/yLawwSYf9Yg" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2010-02-08T21:31:00+00:00 power shocking-discoveries hardware 208 208,202,166,135,55,30,20 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/182245/New-Material-Transforms-Car-Bodies-Into-Batteries?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/tZFQR4b4B-8/3D-HDMI-Specification-Is-Set-Free An anonymous reader writes "The licenser of the HDMI specification has announced the intent to 'secure the application of 3D' by making the 3D portion of the HDMI 1.4 Specification available for public download, as well as extracts from the upcoming HDMI 1.4a. While the spec includes a 3D component, apparently not everyone has decided to sign up to adopt it. Given the developments happening in DisplayPort v1.2, the next year in displays looks like it will be an interesting one."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/0231234/3D-HDMI-Specification-Is-Set-Free?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/08/0231234"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/0231234/3D-HDMI-Specification-Is-Set-Free?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fXEiUGr2sbDYYbLHRjOoCPW0zxA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fXEiUGr2sbDYYbLHRjOoCPW0zxA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fXEiUGr2sbDYYbLHRjOoCPW0zxA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fXEiUGr2sbDYYbLHRjOoCPW0zxA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/tZFQR4b4B-8" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-08T09:50:00+00:00 tv seeing-double hardware 99 99,97,83,75,24,13,8 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/0231234/3D-HDMI-Specification-Is-Set-Free?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/gd5BXFwavF4/International-Space-Station-Cupola-Video-Released quaith writes "With the Space Shuttle Endeavour scheduled to launch at 4:39 AM EST on Sunday for a trip to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency has released a video that shows how the modules it's carrying &mdash; Node-3 ('Tranquility') and Cupola &mdash; are going to get attached. Node-3 is a connecting module. Cupola has six trapezoidal windows and circular roof designed to provide a unique vantage-point for observing Earth. The video animations show how the station's robotic arm will be used initially to put the modules in place as a single unit, and then to detach Cupola from the end of Node-3 and reattach it on the Earth-facing side. With this addition, the ISS will start to look like something that Jules Verne would have wanted to visit."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2332234/International-Space-Station-Cupola-Video-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/06/2332234"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2332234/International-Space-Station-Cupola-Video-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0EIyTguu5O_dTu7oZCraOiKTOls/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0EIyTguu5O_dTu7oZCraOiKTOls/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0EIyTguu5O_dTu7oZCraOiKTOls/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0EIyTguu5O_dTu7oZCraOiKTOls/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/gd5BXFwavF4" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-07T00:57:00+00:00 space next-to-the-gazebo science 63 63,61,51,44,18,12,7 http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/2332234/International-Space-Station-Cupola-Video-Released?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/9mxbl81ivao/Tritium-Leak-At-Vermont-Nuclear-Plant-Grows mdsolar writes "The tritium leak into ground water at Vermont Yankee has now tested at 775,000 picocuries per liter, 37 times higher than the federal drinking water standard. 'Despite the much higher reading, an NRC spokeswoman said Thursday there was nothing to fear. "There's not currently, nor is there likely to be, an impact on public health or safety or the environment," the NRC's Diane Screnci said in an interview. She had maintained previously that the Environmental Protection Agency drinking water safety limit of 20,000 picocuries per liter had an abundance of caution built into it. ... The National Academy of Sciences said in 2005 that any exposure to ionizing radiation from an isotope like tritium elevates the risk of cancer, though it also said with small exposures, the risk would be low. ' At what level should the NRC shut down the troubled plant?"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/156236/Tritium-Leak-At-Vermont-Nuclear-Plant-Grows?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/06/156236"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/156236/Tritium-Leak-At-Vermont-Nuclear-Plant-Grows?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/91UnMnUfJBAj16E7BtlmEOr_DVk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/91UnMnUfJBAj16E7BtlmEOr_DVk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/91UnMnUfJBAj16E7BtlmEOr_DVk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/91UnMnUfJBAj16E7BtlmEOr_DVk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/9mxbl81ivao" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-06T16:17:00+00:00 earth time-to-step-up-your-broccoli-consumption news 293 293,289,226,178,60,29,18 http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/156236/Tritium-Leak-At-Vermont-Nuclear-Plant-Grows?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/SXaHjtG1LeQ/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy MikeChino writes "A physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another. The technique is based upon prior research that shows it's possible to teleport information from one location to another, and involves making a measurement on each [of] an entangled pair of particles. The measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system, and then by carefully choosing the measurement to do so on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy. Heady stuff, but essentially it means that you can inject energy at one point in the universe and extract it from somewhere else without changing the energy of the system as a whole."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2239256/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/05/2239256"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2239256/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G0J83vjn7mXbT9o83FF1I7ApFlQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G0J83vjn7mXbT9o83FF1I7ApFlQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G0J83vjn7mXbT9o83FF1I7ApFlQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G0J83vjn7mXbT9o83FF1I7ApFlQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/SXaHjtG1LeQ" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2010-02-05T23:20:00+00:00 power scott-me-up-beamy science 362 362,355,286,216,52,31,23 http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/2239256/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/5wmUWFwZS6o/Can-You-Trust-Chinese-Computer-Equipment Ian Lamont writes "Suspicions about China slipping eavesdropping technology into computer exports have been around for years. But the recent spying attacks, attributed to China, on Google and other Internet companies have revived the hardware spying concerns. An IT World blogger suggests the gear can't be trusted, noting that it wouldn't be hard to add security holes to the firmware of Chinese-made USB memory sticks, computers, hard drives, and cameras. He also implies that running automatic checks for data of interest in the compromised gear would not be difficult." The blog post mentions Ken Thompson's admission in 1983 that he had put a backdoor into the Unix C compiler; he laid out the details in the 1983 Turing Award lecture, Reflections On Trusting Trust: "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/1548226/Can-You-Trust-Chinese-Computer-Equipment?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/05/1548226"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/1548226/Can-You-Trust-Chinese-Computer-Equipment?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gdWYE2V8hCPLJtKrJSsqfiOEq7g/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gdWYE2V8hCPLJtKrJSsqfiOEq7g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gdWYE2V8hCPLJtKrJSsqfiOEq7g/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gdWYE2V8hCPLJtKrJSsqfiOEq7g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/5wmUWFwZS6o" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-05T16:02:00+00:00 security or-anybody's-really hardware 458 458,456,341,272,82,38,23 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/1548226/Can-You-Trust-Chinese-Computer-Equipment?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/gcN_fb1rmck/Graphene-Transistors-10x-Faster-Than-Silicon Asadullah Ahmad writes "IBM has created transistors made from carbon atoms, which operate at 100 gigahertz, while using a manufacturing process that is compatible with current semiconductor fabrication. With silicon close to its physical limits, graphene seems like a viable replacement until quantum computing gets to desktop. Quoting: 'Researchers have previously made graphene transistors using laborious mechanical methods, for example by flaking off sheets of graphene from graphite; the fastest transistors made this way have reached speeds of up to 26 gigahertz. Transistors made using similar methods have not equaled these speeds.'" The other day we discussed what sounds like similar research by a group of scientists at Tohoku University; that team did not produce transistors, however.<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/151221/Graphene-Transistors-10x-Faster-Than-Silicon?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/05/151221"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/151221/Graphene-Transistors-10x-Faster-Than-Silicon?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/15AVDp3TpLvqm-xjyzFK86Sauik/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/15AVDp3TpLvqm-xjyzFK86Sauik/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/15AVDp3TpLvqm-xjyzFK86Sauik/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/15AVDp3TpLvqm-xjyzFK86Sauik/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/gcN_fb1rmck" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-05T15:19:00+00:00 ibm can't-be-too-rich-either hardware 170 170,169,131,103,33,20,12 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/151221/Graphene-Transistors-10x-Faster-Than-Silicon?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/CzOMsT7Be40/Intel-Details-Upcoming-Gulftown-Six-Core-Processor MojoKid writes "With the International Solid-State Circuits Conference less than a week away, Intel has released additional details on its upcoming hexa-core desktop CPU, next gen mobile, and dual-core Westmere processors. Much of the dual-core data was revealed last month when Intel unveiled their Clarkdale architecture. However, when Intel set its internal goals for what its calling Westmere 6C, the company aimed to boost both core and cache count by 50 percent without increasing the processor's thermal envelope. Westmere 6C (codename Gulftown) is a native six-core chip. Intel has crammed 1.17 billion transistors into a die that's approximately 240mm sq. The new chip carries 12MB up L3 (up from Nehalem's 8MB) and a TDP of 130W at 3.33GHz. In addition, Intel has built in AES encryption instruction decode support as well as a number of improvements to Gulftown's power consumption, especially in idle sleep states."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/04/0150245/Intel-Details-Upcoming-Gulftown-Six-Core-Processor?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/04/0150245"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/04/0150245/Intel-Details-Upcoming-Gulftown-Six-Core-Processor?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MB1nNQdyXBlhyq9ARWF6CcVOUjk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MB1nNQdyXBlhyq9ARWF6CcVOUjk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MB1nNQdyXBlhyq9ARWF6CcVOUjk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MB1nNQdyXBlhyq9ARWF6CcVOUjk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/CzOMsT7Be40" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2010-02-04T12:59:00+00:00 intel give-me-the-numbers hardware 216 216,214,177,146,30,13,8 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/04/0150245/Intel-Details-Upcoming-Gulftown-Six-Core-Processor?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/b2VtqGDSrXs/Giving-CubeSats-Electric-Propulsion eldavojohn writes "Thirteen picosatellites were launched back in June of 2006 with the price coming down dramatically in the years since. But the Rubik's cube sized devices have no mobility, meaning once they're put in orbit, they stay in that orbit. The big problem is that traditional chemical propulsion systems are too large for ten-centimeter sided cubes weighing a kilogram. A new electric propulsion system designed by Paulo Lozano of MIT might change that. "<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/2253214/Giving-CubeSats-Electric-Propulsion?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/03/2253214"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/2253214/Giving-CubeSats-Electric-Propulsion?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p0q3U-9shWclTzE8ICrmBP0PlL8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p0q3U-9shWclTzE8ICrmBP0PlL8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p0q3U-9shWclTzE8ICrmBP0PlL8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p0q3U-9shWclTzE8ICrmBP0PlL8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/b2VtqGDSrXs" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-02-03T23:22:00+00:00 power how-repellant hardware 74 74,69,58,46,27,19,9 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/2253214/Giving-CubeSats-Electric-Propulsion?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/1hpQI6nI-gI/A-Hybrid-Approach-For-SSD-Speed-From-Your-2TB-HDD Claave writes "bit-tech.net reports that SilverStone has announced a device that daisy-chains an SSD with a hard disk, with the aim of providing SSD speeds plus loads of storage space. The SilverStone HDDBoost is a hard disk caddy with an integrated storage controller, and is an easy upgrade for your PC. The device copies the 'front-end' of your hard disk to the SSD, and tells your OS to prefer the SSD when possible. SSD speeds for a 2TB storage device? Yep, sounds good to me!"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1814248/A-Hybrid-Approach-For-SSD-Speed-From-Your-2TB-HDD?from=rss"><img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/03/1814248"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1814248/A-Hybrid-Approach-For-SSD-Speed-From-Your-2TB-HDD?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X0kzkq-0E7KGJj1JBdnSqldnDZ4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X0kzkq-0E7KGJj1JBdnSqldnDZ4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X0kzkq-0E7KGJj1JBdnSqldnDZ4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/X0kzkq-0E7KGJj1JBdnSqldnDZ4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/1hpQI6nI-gI" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-02-03T18:55:00+00:00 storage bottleneck-feedback-loop hardware 194 194,188,169,122,40,15,8 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1814248/A-Hybrid-Approach-For-SSD-Speed-From-Your-2TB-HDD?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://hardware.slashdot.org/search.pl