Category: Technology
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Nanowires Enable FinFET Successor
FinFETs Rule At the moment, the dominant transistor technology used to make high density silicon devices is the FinFET. This is made using vertical fins allowing the gate to wrap around the Source and Drain. This improves control of the channel. Some additional details are available at FinFET FinFETs have dominated dense semiconductor…
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Memristors
Memristor The Memristor is a device that was theoretically predicted in 1971 by Leon Chua but not demonstrated in practice until 2008. It is one of the four Fundamental Circuit Elements. The full collection is: Resistor Capacitor Inductor Memristor The diagram below shows how they relate to the physical elements of Voltage, Current, Charge,…
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GPS to 10cm
GPS History GPS started with Sputnik. This was covered really well by Steven Johnson in his book on “Where Good Ideas Come From“. Here is a summary. The basic plot is easy to understand. Smart people work out how to use existing stuff to do extraordinary things with it. While he starts with English…
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Wearables – A History
Wearables started when? The buzz technology of the past 18 months has been Wearables which is short for Wearable Technology. So when exactly did Wearable Technology begin? Like most overnight successes, it started a long time ago. Below is an infographic from http://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-wearable-technology/ that is an excellent overview of the topic, with some notable exceptions…
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Data Analytics Drive Modern Business
Data and Analytics Today, data is available for nearly everything you can think of. Or if it isn’t, then it isn’t hard to add new data sources, both internal and external to a business. But data alone isn’t the answer. It is what you do with it, learn from it and decide based on it that…