Said one Chinese executive: "U.S. innovation never ends. Play that strength.
After that depressing time for EE engineers in the early '90s, you had IT,
semiconductors, software, Web browsers. You had Microsoft, search engines, eBay,
Amazon.com. "I think they [U.S. industry] are crying for nothing. You grab the
high margin of the business and give the dirty work to the Chinese, and then
complain about it."
India's share of high quality scientific research is declining sharply as rivals
like China make R&D progress, a panel said.
Of particular concern are excessive bureaucratic and political interference
at universities and scientific institutions, said council chairman C.N.R. Rao,
who will convene a conference on science teaching and research, the government
said in a statement.
Mentor Graphics Corp. has made available new high-speed
datatypes based on ANSI C++ that the company claims can accelerate algorithm
validation by 10 fold.
Algorithmic C datatypes are described as arbitrary-bit-width datatypes and
are said to enable algorithm, system and hardware designers to precisely model
bit-true behavior in C++ specifications while accelerating simulation speeds by
10-200x. Mentor (Wilsonville, Ore.) said it is making the C++ datatypes
immediately available to designers and EDA tool vendors through the company's Web site.
IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) and Georgia Tech (Atlanta) claimed that they have
demonstrated the first silicon-based chip capable of operating at frequencies
above 500 GHz by cryogenically "freezing" the circuit to minus 451 degrees
Fahrenheit (4.5 Kelvins).
By comparison, 500 GHz is more than 250 times faster than today's cell
phones, which typically operate at approximately 2 GHz, according to the
organizations.
Still, it's hard to imagine many commercial applications for a chip that is
cryogenically frozen to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit. Another question is
whether speed still matters at a time when chip designers are much more focused
on power management.
