In a fascinating twist, scientists are using technologies that follow from thinking first set forth by Greek mathematician Archimedes to reveal the original text and illustrations from the only known copy of his book, "On Floating Bodies". In a fascinating twist, scientists are using technologies that follow from thinking first set forth by Greek mathematician Archimedes to reveal the original text and illustrations from the only known copy of his book, "On Floating Bodies"....

Aerosol nanocrystals form floating gate. aerosol nanocrystals form floating gate. The California Institute of Technology has pioneered a unique method of producing floating gates, a component of flash memory previously subject to electron leakage. The California Institute of Technology has pioneered a unique method of producing floating gates, a component of flash memory previously subject to electron leakage....

Mira - floating displays around the home. mira. One of the more interesting announcements at WinHEC is Mira. . One of the more interesting announcements at WinHEC is Mira. A display that can detach from its base unit and be carried around the house, ...

Intel claims floating point speed crown for 4-way servers. intel claims floating point speed crown for 4. The company announced that a 4-way system based on Montecito chips posted a floating point performance of 45 GFlops in the Linpack benchmark....

CES 2007: A floating iPod sound system for your swimming pool. ces2007 floating ipod. The manufacturer says that the case is waterproof and rugged enough so that users can not only use it in the shower, but even throw it into the swimming pool, where it will float on the water surface....

Intel today revealed more details about its 80-core research CPU, which likely is the most powerful floating point engine built to date. 200 of these processors achieve the same floating point performance as today's most powerful supercomputer. San Francisco (CA) - Intel today revealed more details about its 80-core research CPU, which likely is the most powerful floating point engine built to date. 200 of these processors achieve the same floating point performance as today’s most powerful supercomputer. Intel claims that it can scale the voltage and clock speed of the processor to gain even more floating point performance. At this time, the CPU is built to explore floating point capabilities on processors that could open the door to new types of applications. What we already know today is that Intel is betting its money on CPU-like floating point engines and AMD will be taking the GPU-based "stream processing" approach....

Background on floating point 32-bit floating point values are highly desirable for many applications because they can be computed very quickly with about 8 significant digits in base-10 math (the numbers we all use), typically in one clock cycle. Still, 64-bit computations are notably more accurate. x86 FPU There are three basic types of floating point formats supported in x86’s FPU. This interrupt would halt the CPU’s execution of the normal software program whenever a floating point math instruction was found. Most modern compilers support only 32-bit and 64-bit (single and double) floating point formats because these are the only ones typically supported in other hardware. Compiler writers like to keep things simple, so they make a compiler engine which targets all of the available platforms they’re after, leaving out powerful engines like the 80-bit floating point format in the FPU....