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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (3870)	6/9/2005 11:49:07 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 4345

HP uses coding theory to make nano chip (Nice to report good news here for a change) Mark LaPedus EE Times (06/09/2005 12:30 AM EDT) eetimes.com SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday (June 9) claims to have developed a new way to design future nano-electronic circuits using coding theory, an approach currently being used in certain math, cryptography and telecommunications applications. HP Labs' coding technology enables what it calls a crossbar architecture, where a set of parallel nanoscale wires are laid atop another set of parallel wires at approximately a 90 degree angle. This, in turn, sandwiches a layer of electrically switchable material in between. Where the material becomes trapped between the crossing wires, they can form a switch that represents a "1" or "0," the basic building blocks of computer code. The company's first device based on the technology is a demultiplexer. It claims to have made working devices in the laboratory at the 30-nm half-pitch node. The International Technology Roadmap for Silicon (ITRS) predicts that 32-nm half-pitch chips could be in production in about seven to eight years. Coding technology could result in "nearly perfect manufacturing yields," with equipment a thousand times less expensive than what might be required using future versions of current technologies, according to HP (Palo Alto, Calif.) "We have invented a completely new way of designing an electronic interconnect for nano-scale circuits using coding theory, which is commonly used in today's digital cell phone systems and in deep-space probes," said Williams, HP Senior Fellow and director of quantum science research at HP Labs, in a statement. "By using a cross-bar architecture and adding 50 percent more wires as an 'insurance policy,' we believe it will be possible to fabricate nano-electronic circuits with nearly perfect yields even though the probability of broken components will be high," he said.

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (3870)	6/14/2005 9:19:17 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 4345

H-P splits up its PC and printing groups, 5 months after merging . InPlay 6:45AM H-P splits up its PC and printing groups, 5 months after merging them (HPQ) $23.89: Hewlett-Packard names former PalmOne (PLMO) CEO R. Todd Bradley new head of personal systems group; Vyomesh Joshi to resume his previous position as head of imaging and printing. Co doesn't provide detailed reasons for the move.

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (3870)	7/11/2005 1:32:37 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

7/11/05: KKR and Silver Lake Hold the Leading Bid For an Agilent Unit: "Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners have emerged as the leading bidder for Agilent Technologies Inc.'s semiconductor-products business in an auction that is expected to fetch as much as $2.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter." suite101.com Wouldn't it be funny if they used the cash plus debt to buy out HP then toss out (sell) the Compaq and personal computer stuff to pay off the debt and return HP to what it was in the 1970's when it was a great instrument company that started the printer business by making a better plotter to chart data!