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Enforcing Moore’s Law through Technology Research – Part 6

by Mike Mayberry, Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing Group, and Director, Components Research Welcome! I’ve been blogging about research progress towards making compound semiconductors mainstream and talking about both challenges and opportunities. Three IEDM 2011 papers show the latest progress … Continue reading

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Enforcing Moore’s Law through Technology Research – Part 4

Welcome to the fourth installment! I’ve been blogging about research progress towards making compound semiconductors mainstream and talking about both challenges and opportunities. Enforcing Moore’s Law through Technology Research Enforcing Moore’s Law through Technology Research – Part 2 Enforcing Moore’s … Continue reading

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IDF Classmate Photo Update

I promised in my last blog to add some more details on IDF and to post some pictures and videos of some of the classmate activities that our classmate PC kids were doing…well, here it is. Recently at IDF, I … Continue reading

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Classmate PC Updates from IDF 2010

There are so many things going on in the world of classmate PC, I had to share a bunch of them with you all! I was at IDF 2010 in San Francisco yesterday where we had a lot of things … Continue reading

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St. Paul Academy – classmate PCs in action!

Back in March I shared some thoughts about my time visiting the teachers and students of St. Paul Academy. We now have some footage of the classmate PCs in action at St. Paul Academy, including reactions from some of the … Continue reading

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Transistors: Past, Present, Future, and Future-er

Today I had the privilege of presenting a plenary talk at the 2010 Device Research Conference (DRC) at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. DRC is one of the premier conferences in the semiconductor industry, and the focus is … Continue reading

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I bet you haven’t seen an Intel chip do this

You’ve used Intel chips in PCs and most times you Google something, Intel is powering your search; but did you know that Intel chips are also inside many everyday devices like ATMs, fast food digital signs and airport check-in kiosks? … Continue reading

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St. Paul Academy – Using classmate PCs and embracing 1:1!

So it has been awhile since my last Blog update, but I am hoping to change that this year. To kick things off this year, I wanted to talk about a real world deployment of classmate PCs and 1:1 learning … Continue reading

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Transforming American Education – Learning Powered by Technology

Almost every American kid today steps back in time nearly 20 years when he or she enters a classroom in the morning, then pops back to the future after leaving school at the end of the day. The access, connectivity … Continue reading

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Documentary on Intel Xeon processor ‘Nehalem Effect’ is nonsense

I rarely write about topics with such vigour, but this latest video from a so-called documentary team is absolute and utter rubbish. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Intel Xeon 5500 processor can create the kind of data centre … Continue reading

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