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News Bids are invited from people working in new technology areas such as superconductivity, nanotechnology, data storage, photonics and power electronics. Aspiring IT entrepreneurs in the UK are in line to receive a share of... [27 Aug 2002]
'Strained silicon': How it works
News Technically, these chips can be classified as nanotechnology parts because their components will measure less than 100 nanometers across. By Michael Kanellos Tinkering at the atomic level is becoming a daily issue for... [13 Aug 2002]
IBM puts one trillion bits on tiny, wee chip
News The experimental prototype is part of Big Blue's ongoing Millipede research into nanotechnology devices. IBM has developed a storage device that can store up to one trillion bits of information in an area the size of a... [11 Jun 2002]
IBM puts silicon on the shelf
News The carbon transistors are the latest in nanotechnology, which involves developing ever-faster and ever-smaller chip components. IBM claims to have created ultra-fast transistors out of carbon molecules that could make... [20 May 2002]
Start-ups and VC cash - life goes on
Comment On the other hand, biotechnology and nanotechnology are both being cited as hot sectors by a number of venture capitalists. Venture capital is no longer a dirty phrase. The sector is getting back to normal after the... [02 Apr 2002]
Money makes the world go round, again
News The software and biotechnology markets are proving particularly attractive to investment firms worldwide, while wireless, nanotechnology and internet security start-ups continue to do well in Europe. The market for... [04 Feb 2002]
AI to reach human levels in 20 years
News Clarke added that by 2040 scientists will have developed a universal replicator based on nanotechnology capable of creating any object - sounding suspiciously like Star Trek's replicator. Artificial intelligence will... [04 Dec 2001]
The molecular processor: the size of things to come?
News In what may herald the beginning of a century of nanotechnology, boffins at Bell Labs have made a transistor from a single molecule. Hendrik Schon, a physicist, and two chemists, Zhenan Bao and Hong Meng, this week... [09 Nov 2001]
Middle managers replaced by robots by 2051
News The study claims that by 2051, many diseases, such as cancer, will have disappeared because of advanced genetic treatments and nanotechnology. Offices will disappear and robots will replace middle-managers within the... [16 Oct 2001]
