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Nokia and Cambridge Uni team up on nanotech

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.

Tags: university, cambridge, nokia

[07 Mar 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is there nothing new in IT?

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...

Tags: innovation, r&d

[20 Nov 2006]

Seagate CEO: Storage at heart of personal tech growth

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.

Tags: seagate, storage

[16 Oct 2006]

PCs beat solar and wind power as fave tech

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...

Tags: pc

[20 Jun 2006]

Seagate bets millions on Northern Ireland plants

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.

Tags: seagate, northern ireland

[14 Dec 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Valley lessons

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Valley lessons

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...

Tags: silicon valley, valley, peter cochrane, uncommon sense

[31 Mar 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Looking back from 2020

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]

IBM Case Study: TIGER

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...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, life, academic

[10 Nov 2004]

Nanotech funding on the up - reaches $8.6bn

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.

Tags: nanotech, grey goo, nano, nanosys

[16 Aug 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Energy worries

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Energy worries

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?

Tags: telecommuting, oil, energy crisis

[29 Jul 2004]

VCs start thinking small with nanotechnology

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]

Small technology attracts big money

Small technology attracts big money

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]

Nanocompilers, Quantum Dots, and Nonlinear Optics

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...

Tags: nanotechnology, object, device, code

[24 Feb 2004]

The Bloor Perspective: Nanotech, ID theft and whether to issue an RFP

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...

Tags: nanotechnology, rfp, nanotech, id theft

[14 Apr 2003]

The Bloor Perspective: Going private, nano-disks and CA's new flexibility

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]

HP to unveil <strong>nanotech</strong> breakthrough

HP to unveil nanotech breakthrough

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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