When the water in a building's air conditioning system gets infected with Legionella bacteria, people can get Legionnaires' disease. Therefore, it's important to check that water for the bacteria on a regular basis. A new chip is promised to do the job faster than ever.
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Intel has used CES to unveil a new kind of processor with a Radeon GPU built right into it. By embedding a Radeon RX Vega M Graphics chip into an 8th Gen Intel Core CPU, the new configuration can share power and data more efficiently and boost the graphical grunt in smaller devices.
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Samsung has started mass production of new embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) chips, which should bump up the storage capacity of future smartphones to a more capacious 512 GB. The chips can reportedly double the density of storage in the same amount of physical space as the previous unit.
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Several benefits previously exclusive to Qualcomm's high-end 800 series processors are coming to the mid-ranged 600 series. If smartphone makers push these chips to their full capabilities, budget phones could have much more to offer.
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With different IoT devices having different hardware setups that achieve similar ends, Intel is aiming to streamline things for manufacturers with the Compute Card, a self-contained, customizable computer the size of a credit card, that can power various IoT devices.
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Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is an emerging tech that relies on temperature and voltage to store data, although exactly how is a mystery. Now a team has investigated the chips and found the optimal temperature range was lower than expected, paving the way for more efficient memory.
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Swarm, a new chip architecture developed at MIT, automates critical aspects of parallel processing to speed up multi-core CPUs by up to 75 times, while requiring programmers to write a fraction of the code.
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As electronic devices are becoming outdated at an increasingly fast pace, e-waste continues to be a huge problem. That's why scientists have started producing "wooden" semiconductor chips that could almost entirely biodegrade once left in a landfill.
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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new way to safely transfer energy to tiny medical devices implanted deep inside the human body, leading to the development of tiny "electroceutical" devices that could treat diseases using electronics rather than drugs.
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Intel has announced a number of new chips, including the fifth generation Intel Core "Broadwell" and the fourth generation Intel Core "Devil's Canyon." The company also presented its new Ready Mode Technology and demonstrated a portable All-in-One computer.
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