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News Initially, 10 Nokia Research Centre staff will work at the facility, collaborating with Cambridge's Nanoscience Centre and the electrical division of the engineering department, working on nanotech research.
[07 Mar 2007]
Comment Most significantly, ICT is contributing hugely to just about every corner of innovation in biotech, genetics, nanotech, photonics, nuclear and quantum physics, materials, earth sciences and more. A journalist just asked me if I could think of any...
[20 Nov 2006]
News As well as its main media manufacturing hub in Singapore, Seagate has well-known facilities in Northern Ireland, lauded at the end of last year as a nanotech 'centre of excellence'. But we wouldn't describe it that way, as nanotech.
[16 Oct 2006]
News Forget about Terminator-style nightmare scenarios. Most Europeans think computers will have a more positive impact on everyday life over the next 20 years than solar energy or wind power. Nearly four out of five (79 per cent) of the 25,000 people...
[20 Jun 2006]
News Hard drive giant Seagate is making one of the largest ever technology investments in the UK, developing nanotechnology expertise and creating its main global manufacturing facility in Northern Ireland.
[14 Dec 2005]
Comment For sure you don’t invest in speculative things like nanotech, bio and new materials. How long will it be before nanotech, bio and smart materials do the same? Peter Cochrane, inspired by a recent visit and conference on the US West Coast, asks...
[31 Mar 2005]
Comment All of this indirectly led to the great advances in molecular computing, nanotech and a revolution in programmable materials that was a real 'stage left' tsunami. With this column, Peter Cochrane and silicon.com are pleased to announce the winners...
[16 Dec 2004]
whitepaper This implementation will stimulate research in Life Sciences and Nanotech. The Taiwanese government is building a grid between their leading academic and research institutions for research and collaboration in the areas nanotechnology and life...
[10 Nov 2004]
News Spending on nanotech research will more than double from the estimated $3bn level level of 2003, according to an annual state of the industry report from Lux Research, a consulting firm that studies the industry.
[16 Aug 2004]
Comment We have to look to our new material, bio and nanotech programmes, along with telecoms and IT, for potential solutions. So where will we get energy in the future? And could IT have a role in the solution?
[29 Jul 2004]
News Packard, who gave a keynote speech at the Nanotech 2004 show on Tuesday, said in an interview that his company plans to plow about 25 per cent of its $625m venture capital fund into nanotechnology companies over time.
[10 Mar 2004]
News Keynote speakers at the confab said nanotech holds the potential to improve a wide range of industries, such as computers, energy and health care, and to create entire industries itself. The US government plans to plow nearly $1bn into nanotech...
[09 Mar 2004]
whitepaper As with most things nanotech, the real roots of a nanocompiler come from the work of Eric Drexler. He also proposed a mechanical computer (based on a set of nano-sized interlocking rods) that would handle the processing of the detailed instruction...
[24 Feb 2004]
Comment Nanotechnology, they say, will be a $1tr market. They are probably right but it won't happen tomorrow. Right now we are in the early hype phase where there are more ideas than products. But still, there are a number of start-ups, and even one or...
[14 Apr 2003]
Comment There was a time, barely three years ago, when the advantages of a public offering and listing of shares in a company were trumpeted by exchanges, banks and financial advisors. Even relatively new companies could participate in the raising of...
[31 Jan 2003]
News Hewlett-Packard researchers will unveil a major breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology later today, a milestone in the company's goal to build future generations of smaller, faster and cheaper chips based on 'molecular grids'.
[09 Sep 2002]
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