Australia's Greenland Minerals and Energy Company, which is prospecting for uranium and rare earths used in computers and mobile phones, will also be watching closely.
But in Asia we have a very real technology sector - the makers of PCs, semiconductors, peripherals, all sorts of electronics components that are used in computers and telecommunications equipment.
The power demands of the chips that are currently used in mobile computers drain batteries quickly.
Nereus, on the other hand, uses rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, similar to those used in laptop computers, for power and a single hairs-width fibre optic cables - borrowed from Torpedoes - for control and telemetry.
For instance, a calligraphy course that he took on a lark after dropping out of Reed College found practical application 10 years later in designing the first Macintosh computer, and influenced the typefaces used in other computers.
It turns out that those selenium "doughnuts" can be packed tightly onto a metal surface without touching, thanks to their soft shells, which could allow more bits to be packed onto a hard drive, or be used in quantum computers and next-gen displays.
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The prices fetched for DRAM chips, which are used widely in personal computers and other products, are still well below their cost of production.
PS2's central processor, a 128-bit microprocessor developed by Sony and Toshiba, has twice the raw number-crunching power of Intel's most advanced Pentium chip used in professional desktop computers.
Intel is also a threat at the low end, where it competes with Nvidia and AMD to sell the cheaper integrated graphics chipsets used in budget desktop computers and many notebooks.
HDDs used to store content in data centers is used more efficiently that those in personal computers and so the growth potential is more moderate for content stored in centrally managed repositories rather than in individual computers.
The communications processor business includes the IXP family of network and communications chips used in networking products and Intel's Xscale application chips are used in cell phones, handheld computers, and smart phones.
Many of the computers used in the attack belonged to innocent Americans whose PCs had been hijacked.
Some of the high-speed computers used in this program are being used for civilian applications, including climate control, health, crime and the environment.
According to a 2009 federal indictment, he used computers located in the U.S., Latvia and Estonia, in a conspiracy that netted more than 100 million stolen credit-card numbers.
Minister Mikhailov of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy has not been reluctant to proclaim what these high-performance computers will be used for, and he said in a speech in January they will be used to simulate nuclear explosions, and that the computers are, in his words, '10 times faster than any previously available in Russia.
Many of those programs are still being used in some older PC software and large mainframe computers -- used by government agencies, universities, Wall Street and businesses worldwide.
Unless users have antivirus software regularly updated, they may never know their computers were used in the attack.
The Flashback malware targeted a vulnerability in the Java software that is used in Windows machines, Apple computers and many others.
He's proof that, despite the fancy technologies and computers used today in drug discovery, individual scientists can still make the difference between blockbuster and bust.
The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple's Macintosh computers.
Seamless metal containers still have myriad uses in the high-tech age: they make particularly good casings for long-life lithium ion batteries, used in mobile phones and notebook computers, since they don't corrode as welded casings do.
Most recently, stiff competition and the rising cost of improving chips has made it even harder for surviving makers of dynamic random-access memory, the chips known as DRAMs that are used to store data in personal computers and server systems.
When city officials wanted to promote a job-creation plan in 2005, they used ads depicting an office full of Mannekens at computers and in meetings.
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The pattern began in the 1950s, when hugely expensive mainframe computers were first used to save correspondingly huge sums in information-intensive functions in the financial-services industry, then in accounting, payroll and inventory-control tasks in other big organisations.
Dell Computer has used this model to build computers in the U. S. for some time.
Rambus chips are used in video game consoles, personal computers and other electronic goods.
The credit-card sized computers have been used in a huge variety of DIY computing projects.
They should assess if tablet computers can be used in the enterprise to boost employee efficiency and productivity.
In the nontelephone market--where cable will be used in such things as aircraft, computers and defense--Houghton is considering a joint venture--a la Dow Corning--with a cable company.
Yesterday, Senate investigators released a study describing how the maker of the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers used subsidiaries based in Ireland to avoid income taxes on a big chunk of its global profits.
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