February 10, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—Erik Heijne from CERN talked about how chips pave the road to the Higgs particle and the atto world beyond. Fundamental research on elementary constituents of matter need more sophisticated tools with greater performance and resolution. Researchers working in high energy physics are taking advantage of microelectronics trends for smaller,…
February 4, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Gordon Wetzstein from MIT talked about the conjunction of optical fabrication, computational processing, and perceptual tricks to build the displays of the future. Between 1923 in the present, different electronics and optics have gone into TVs over time. One problem, is that the user experience is still the…
September 13, 2011, IDF, San Francisco—Paul Ottellini, CEO, talked about the future of computing at the Intel Developers Forum. Computing is going through some fundamental transformations resulting in the user becoming the center. Although increased productivity is always a goal, we’re now in the early stages in the evolution in computing. PC used to…
For more than 20 years, flash memory has enabled the creation of new markets such as digital photography, digital music and portable high-capacity data storage. Now, flash-based solid state drive (SSD) technology is poised to drive significant changes in the mobile and PC computing industries (Fig. 1). Figure 1:Examples of new markets enabled by flash…