Feed Profit Slips at Sony on Losses for PlayStation 3 (nytimes.com)
Sony faulted a strategic decision to set the price of the PlayStation 3 below the cost of production as a way to bolster market share.
Submission + - Breaking the transistor miniaturization barriee
krishn_bhakt writes: "http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&arti cleID=742A3381-E7F2-99DF-3D54A13380979044&ref=rss says:
Last week Intel and IBM both announced that they had figured out a way to further shrink the size of transistors, the tiny on-off switches that power computers. The trick, according to Intel, is introducing the metal hafnium into the mix — an addition that marks the first major change in transistor materials in four decades. Hafnium-based computer circuits would likely be denser, faster and consume less power than existing microprocessors.
The article of Osburn on which this is based can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/i el5/55/21142/00981318.pdf and http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/i el5/55/21142/00981318.pdf"
Last week Intel and IBM both announced that they had figured out a way to further shrink the size of transistors, the tiny on-off switches that power computers. The trick, according to Intel, is introducing the metal hafnium into the mix — an addition that marks the first major change in transistor materials in four decades. Hafnium-based computer circuits would likely be denser, faster and consume less power than existing microprocessors.
The article of Osburn on which this is based can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/
What Writing For Games Is Really Like 73
Gamasutra is running a transcript of a recent podcast, in which host Tom Kim interviewed the well-respected games scriptwriter Susan O'Connor. She talks about what it was like to write for games as diverse as Star Wars Galaxies, Gears of War, and Bioshock. She and Kim go into what the process of writing for games entails, the increasingly interesting Writer's Game Conference at the Austin Games Conference, the interplay between designer and writer, and what it is like to write for and as a woman in a male-dominated industry. O'Connor comments: "You can look at someone like Ang Lee, who makes these incredibly powerful movies in English set definitely in America, and yet he's not from here and English is not his first language. So I think there's something to be said as a female writer writing male characters. It does take a little bit more work to get inside of their heads, but you do have that luxury of being and outsider and being able to see it with fresh eyes."
Journal Journal: Synthetic Biology Could Be Used To Turn Sugar Into Diesel 355
ABCTech has an interesting article about an Emeryville-base tech startup, Amyris Biotechnologies , that is planning to use microbes to turn sugar into diesel. Ethanol is made by adding sugar to yeast, but Amyris believes that it can reprogram the microbes to make something closer to gasoline. The company was initially given a $43 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attempt to research the appl
Vendor Intel to Unveil Mobile Core 2 Extreme in Q3'2007 3
Come Q3 of this year you can expect to see Intel's Mobile Core 2 Extreme . "The upcoming Core 2 Extreme X7800 uses the same Merom core used by the Core 2 Duo mobile family of processors. Intel's Core 2 Extreme X7800 will arrive clocked at 2.6 GHz, operate on an 800 MHz front-side bus and feature 4MB of L2 cache like the rest of the Core 2 Duo family. Intel technologies such as VT, EIST, EM64T and NX bit are supported, though Inte
Submission + - iPods Becoming Entrenched In Major League Baseball
DreadfulGrape writes: "ESPN.com reports on how video iPods are being used increasingly by baseball players to study opponents' game footage. In fact, Houston Astros' pitcher Jason Jennings credits the device with improving his game last summer. From the article:
"Eventually, more than two-thirds of the roster had piled on and turned this team into baseball's official iSquad. Every player gets his own custom set of videos loaded onto his personal iPod, sorted by date, hitter, pitcher and opponent — and updated every week or so.""
