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Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware’s supply chain and boost Dell’s standing among PC enthusiasts. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the world’s largest PC maker, said Nelson Gonzalez, chief executive officer of [...]
John of Kissimmee FL (12/30/05): My daughter searched the internet and found Alienware was building a computer called an “Aurora: Star Wars Edition Dark Side” System. I agreed to buy it for her since I had heard good things about Alienware and it would be a nice Christmas gift. Purchased it over the internet on [...]
(Nanowerk Spotlight) For computer chips, ‘smaller and faster’ just isn’t good enough anymore. Power and heat have become the biggest issues for chip manufacturers and companies integrating these chips in everyday devices such as cell phones and laptops. The computing power of today’s computer chips is provided mostly by operations switching at ever higher frequency. [...]
Elke Rundensteiner receives second year of funding for project on complex event stream analytics, or the development of advanced tools for extracting meaning, in real time, from vast amounts of complex streaming data IMAGE: Elke Rundensteiner, is a professor of computer science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Click here for more information. WORCESTER, Mass. – For [...]
Smaller, lighter computers and an end to worries about electrical failures sending hours of on-screen work into an inaccessible limbo mark the potential result of Argonne research on tiny ferroelectric crystals. “Tiny” means billionths of a meter, or about 1/500th the width of a human hair. These nanomaterials behave differently than their larger bulk counterparts. [...]
A Tel Aviv University team of researchers are working on a chip that can help doctors wire computer applications and sensors to the brain that will provide deep brain stimulation precisely where and when it is needed. The chip is called the Rehabilitation Nano Chip (ReNaChip for short). When connected to electrodes implanted in the [...]
A nanocomputer is a computer whose physical dimensions are microscopic. The field of nanocomputing is part of the emerging field of nanotechnology . Several types of nanocomputers have been suggested or proposed by researchers and futurists. Electronic nanocomputers would operate in a manner similar to the way present-day microcomputers work. The main difference is one [...]
Altech’s Nano Box-VX harnesses AOpen’s MP945-VX Mini PC Duo enclosure to provide a PC that’s not only small, but also capable of doling out plenty of speed to keep you productive. AOpen’s enclosure, which measures 16.5cm x 16.5cm x 7cm high, comes with its own motherboard, which has a DC power input, and is based [...]
‘Quantum Computer’ a Stage Closer With Silicon Breakthrough ScienceDaily (June 23, 2010) — The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material — silicon — for the first time. The research findings — published in Nature by a UK-Dutch team from the [...]