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IBM Cooks Up Super-Thin
Graphene Chips
Friday - June 10, 2011
IBM researchers have
demonstrated a graphene circuit
which integrates all circuit
components onto a single wafer
made of silicon carbide.
Graphene is a mesh of carbon
atoms that's one atom thick.
Integrating it monolithically --
meaning in one unit -- with other
materials is a problem
researchers have been grappling
with since 2004, when the
material's properties were first
demonstrated. [More...]
Has the Time Come for an
Android Market Drug Test?
Friday - June 10, 2011
Android apps are becoming
more popular as the Android
operating system gains ground
in the mobile market. IDC expects
Android to take more than 40
percent of the worldwide
smartphone market in the
second half of 2011. However,
with Android's growing
popularity comes a growing risk
of malware attacks. [More...]
OPINION
Hypervisor Fight Is Good for
Customers, Good for FOSS
Friday - June 10, 2011
There have been many changes
in the market and technology
since Citrix acquired XenSource
and a major stewardship stake in
the Xen open source hypervisor
four years ago. Red Hat's 2008
Qumranet acquisition and
subsequent push behind the
Linux-integrated Kernel-based
Virtual Machine hypervisor has
added to the disruption. [More...]