There's no question that Micron has shifted its focus away from PCs in favor of producing components, shipping everything from SSDs to CMOS sensors in recent years, but the semiconductor manufacturer just took a $2.5 billion step even closer to bridging its gap between other companies in the same market, including Samsung, the chip producer's top competitor. Under the deal, Elpida Memory, which is headquartered in Tokyo, will fall within the Idaho-based conglomerate's growing umbrella, netting Micron a 50-percent boost in production capability. That increase did come at great expense, however -- the transaction included $750 million in cash and $1.75 billion in future installments (1,750 easy payments of one million dollars?), which are set to continue through 2019. The acquisition was also paired with a 24-percent stake in Rexchip Electronics for an additional $334 million, which will complement Elpida's investment, yielding a total 89-percent stake for Micron. While the amount does seem quite significant, investors appear to be on board, with Micron's stock ($MU) currently up more than 4 percent since this morning. Both deals will reportedly close within the next year.
DOE supports fiber-optic data link critical to search for the Higgs 'God' particlePublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Margaret Allen mallen@smu.edu 214-768-7664 Southern Methodist University
Tiny optoelectronic module plays a key role in the worlds largest physics experiments; new module will be 75 times faster than current fiber-optic data link on LHCs ATLAS
A tiny optoelectronic module designed in part by SMU physicists plays a big role in the world's largest physics experiment at CERN in Switzerland, where scientists are searching for the "God" particle.
The module, a fiber-optic transmitter, sends the Large Hadron Collider's critical raw data from its ATLAS experiment to offsite computer farms, where thousands of physicists around the world access the data and analyze it for the long-sought sub-atomic particle, the Higgs boson.
Now as a result of SMU's role on the LHC link, SMU Physics Research Professor Annie Xiang has won a three-year research and development grant with $67,500 in support annually from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance the design of the optoelectronic module.
The grant calls for a customized multi-channel optical transmitter that can be deployed on many of the world's high-energy particle detectors.
Xiang is principal investigator for SMU's Data Links Group in SMU's Physics Department, working in the Optoelectronics Lab of Physics Professor Jingbo Ye. She coordinates the lab's development of optical data transmission systems for particle physics experiments.
More than 1,500 data link modules are installed on ATLAS
"We made the first-generation fiber-optic data link specifically for ATLAS and its extremely harsh low-temperature, high-radiation environment," Xiang said.
More than 1,500 of the first-generation data link modules are installed on the calorimeter detectors of ATLAS. The link's job is to reliably offload a continuous flood of raw data without failure or error. Scientists scour the data for signs of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that has been theorized for decades but never actually observed. It is believed the Higgs gives mass to the matter that we observe.
A second-generation data link, which SMU also helped design, is slated for deployment in the next upgrade of the LHC in coming years. The current data link installed in ATLAS can transmit up to 1.6 gigabits a second in a single channel, which equates to writing an HD DVD in one minute, Xiang said. The second-generation link, a 5 gigabit transceiver, has a smaller footprint than the current link, but can transmit three times faster and is qualified for even higher radiation. "Many thousands of the second-generation link will be installed across the LHC detectors," Xiang said.
The data link being supported by DOE will be even faster. A transmitter only, it will have a transmission capacity of 120 gigabits a second, or 75 times faster than the data link currently installed on ATLAS, Xiang said.
DOE project will customize off-the-shelf commercial components for on-detector installation
To design the links, SMU's team and its collaborators start with qualified commercial transmitters and receivers, then customize them for the LHC detectors, Xiang said. They will repeat that process to develop the data link being supported by DOE.
Called a "generic" module, the link supported by DOE isn't specified for any particular detector, but rather will be available to deploy on detectors at the LHC, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and others.
The module a 12-channel transmitter must be high speed and low footprint, and able to withstand an extremely cold and high-radiation environment, while at the same time maintaining low mass and low power consumption, Xiang said.
The DOE award is part of a collaborative project with Fermilab, the University of Minnesota, The Ohio State University and Argonne National Laboratory, with a total funding of $900,000. SMU designed the first-generation module in collaboration with Taiwan's Academia Sinica. SMU collaborated on the second-generation module with CERN, Oxford University and Fermilab.
Ye and Xiang are members of SMU's ATLAS team, which is led by SMU Physics Professor Ryszard Stroynowski.
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SMU has an uplink facility located on campus for live TV, radio, or online interviews. To speak with an SMU expert or book an SMU guest in the studio, call SMU News & Communications at 214-768-7650.
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DOE supports fiber-optic data link critical to search for the Higgs 'God' particlePublic release date: 2-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Margaret Allen mallen@smu.edu 214-768-7664 Southern Methodist University
Tiny optoelectronic module plays a key role in the worlds largest physics experiments; new module will be 75 times faster than current fiber-optic data link on LHCs ATLAS
A tiny optoelectronic module designed in part by SMU physicists plays a big role in the world's largest physics experiment at CERN in Switzerland, where scientists are searching for the "God" particle.
The module, a fiber-optic transmitter, sends the Large Hadron Collider's critical raw data from its ATLAS experiment to offsite computer farms, where thousands of physicists around the world access the data and analyze it for the long-sought sub-atomic particle, the Higgs boson.
Now as a result of SMU's role on the LHC link, SMU Physics Research Professor Annie Xiang has won a three-year research and development grant with $67,500 in support annually from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance the design of the optoelectronic module.
The grant calls for a customized multi-channel optical transmitter that can be deployed on many of the world's high-energy particle detectors.
Xiang is principal investigator for SMU's Data Links Group in SMU's Physics Department, working in the Optoelectronics Lab of Physics Professor Jingbo Ye. She coordinates the lab's development of optical data transmission systems for particle physics experiments.
More than 1,500 data link modules are installed on ATLAS
"We made the first-generation fiber-optic data link specifically for ATLAS and its extremely harsh low-temperature, high-radiation environment," Xiang said.
More than 1,500 of the first-generation data link modules are installed on the calorimeter detectors of ATLAS. The link's job is to reliably offload a continuous flood of raw data without failure or error. Scientists scour the data for signs of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that has been theorized for decades but never actually observed. It is believed the Higgs gives mass to the matter that we observe.
A second-generation data link, which SMU also helped design, is slated for deployment in the next upgrade of the LHC in coming years. The current data link installed in ATLAS can transmit up to 1.6 gigabits a second in a single channel, which equates to writing an HD DVD in one minute, Xiang said. The second-generation link, a 5 gigabit transceiver, has a smaller footprint than the current link, but can transmit three times faster and is qualified for even higher radiation. "Many thousands of the second-generation link will be installed across the LHC detectors," Xiang said.
The data link being supported by DOE will be even faster. A transmitter only, it will have a transmission capacity of 120 gigabits a second, or 75 times faster than the data link currently installed on ATLAS, Xiang said.
DOE project will customize off-the-shelf commercial components for on-detector installation
To design the links, SMU's team and its collaborators start with qualified commercial transmitters and receivers, then customize them for the LHC detectors, Xiang said. They will repeat that process to develop the data link being supported by DOE.
Called a "generic" module, the link supported by DOE isn't specified for any particular detector, but rather will be available to deploy on detectors at the LHC, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and others.
The module a 12-channel transmitter must be high speed and low footprint, and able to withstand an extremely cold and high-radiation environment, while at the same time maintaining low mass and low power consumption, Xiang said.
The DOE award is part of a collaborative project with Fermilab, the University of Minnesota, The Ohio State University and Argonne National Laboratory, with a total funding of $900,000. SMU designed the first-generation module in collaboration with Taiwan's Academia Sinica. SMU collaborated on the second-generation module with CERN, Oxford University and Fermilab.
Ye and Xiang are members of SMU's ATLAS team, which is led by SMU Physics Professor Ryszard Stroynowski.
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SMU is a nationally ranked private university in Dallas founded 100 years ago. Today, SMU enrolls nearly 11,000 students who benefit from the academic opportunities and international reach of seven degree-granting schools. For more information see www.smuresearch.com.
SMU has an uplink facility located on campus for live TV, radio, or online interviews. To speak with an SMU expert or book an SMU guest in the studio, call SMU News & Communications at 214-768-7650.
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Paul?Verhoeven's '80s sci-fis tiptoed between kitsch and corrosive with such brass that people are still debating which bits are meant as satire and which bits aren't. His loose triptych of subversive sci-fis - Starship Troopers, Total Recall and RoboCop - are all getting a redo, with the former still in the early stages of development. In the new issue, Empire caught up with producer Toby Jaffe to find out what's planned for the former.
"The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent," explains Jaffe, also one of the team behind the Colin?Farrell's Total Recall. "With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way."
It's news that will land with a thump in the hearts of bug-hunt purists, but hardly a surprise. It's hard to imagine Verhoeven's gleefully violent RoboCop or Troopers sneaking through the studio system these days, and, explains Jaffe, there's little point retreading old? ground. "Verhoeven took [Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel] from one extreme and made it almost comical, whereas our job is to be a little more faithful to the book, and ground it a little more."
What's planned sounds like it will ditch the satire in favour of a straighter action play. "Verhoeven made his movie a critique of fascism," says Jaffe, "whereas Heinlein was writing from the perspective of someone who had served in?World War II. Y'know, one man's fascism is another man's patriotism..."
One element that will improve with age is the hardware. If the militaristic elements are less tongue-in-cheek, those nukes will be bigger and better. "Working in a visual-efects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein's novel], for example, which I don't think they could have done before."
Pick up the new issue of Empire from Thursday for a fresh look at Verhoeven's trippy trilogy and more from Jaffe and co. on the new generation of films.
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Well atleast we will get crap CGI "jump packs"
Who cares if they remove a large chunk unique factors of what made Verhoeven's film unique and a success in almost every regard outside of gross. I would probably be more concerned if I believed this film was a sure thing but I am having a hard time believing this remake will happen. Total Recall 2012 looks average at best, and the details so far for Robocop also come off as "meh". More
Posted by bjbdigital at 06:25 on 28 June 2012 | Report This Post
Starship Troopers - pure cinematic pleasure
The f/x is amazing and those spider bugs are awesomely realistic and dangerous looking. Won't be beaten. Jaffe can go fuck himself... non-violently and non-ironically of course. More
Posted by BatSpider at 23:05 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
RE: non dimensional
So wait, this is going to be a watered down cash in on a familiar name?
NO WAY!! More
Posted by UTB at 21:10 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
non dimensional
Really hope this is in 3D...which will give me even more of a reason NOT TO GO AND SEE THIS!!!!!! More
Posted by MaxRenn at 20:41 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
RE: A word about the VFX
L: Galahadfairlight
The comment from the producer to suggest they couldn't do the jump suits back in 1997 is patent nonsense, Verhoeven removed them largely to stop the Humans from being virtually indestructable, and to make them have a believable weakness against the bugs.
The VFX for Starship Troopers still stands up today as being excellent, and I very much doubt that the VFX for the new incarnation are remotely going to make the old movie look silly!
couldn't agree more. More
Posted by Rich Empire at 17:12 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
May the Bugs kill this!
How on (or off) earth can they even be considering this?! Verhoeven's movie is just pitch-perfect even now! More
Posted by olirog at 17:04 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
RE: Starship Troopers wasn't an 80s sci-fi...
Let's face it, a p Troopers could hardly be ] violent.
One of the most underrated, misunderstood and t of the 90s, if anything, Starship Troopers is even more subversive than the sublime how the Verhoeven version was a merciless piss-take of Heinlein's po-faced fascist tract - I will take the sight of Doogie Howser dressed like Herr Flick and solemnly intoning "There's a brain bug on Planet P!" with me to the grave. How could you love a movie where the baddies are Nazi 90210/Melrose Pla More
Posted by chris kilby at 16:57 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
RE: Starship Troopers wasn't an 80s sci-fi...
And neither was Total Recall, which came out in 1990. Empire, if you can't get this sh*t right, what hope is there for the rest of us? More
Posted by Nicky C at 16:24 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
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L: Dropje
"Y'know, one man's fascism is another man's patriotism."
Does this mean that, 15 years later, at least one American has realized that this Dutch director had been taking the piss out of them?
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Posted by waltham1979 at 15:31 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
I WOULDN'T LIKE TO KNOW MORE! More
Posted by LSJShez at 15:20 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
A word about the VFX
The comment from the producer to suggest they couldn't do the jump suits back in 1997 is patent nonsense, Verhoeven removed them largely to stop the Humans from being virtually indestructable, and to make them have a believable weakness against the bugs.
The VFX for Starship Troopers still stands up today as being excellent, and I very much doubt that the VFX for the new incarnation are remotely going to make the old movie look silly! More
Posted by Galahadfairlight at 15:09 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
"Y'know, one man's fascism is another man's patriotism."
Does this mean that, 15 years later, at least one American has realized that this Dutch director had been taking the piss out of them? More
Posted by Dropje at 14:58 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
Starship Troopers wasn't an 80s sci-fi...
...it came out in 1997. Just sayin'. More
Posted by Primus at 14:48 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
bs
Everything about this is just wrong. No offense to the fans, but I thought the novel was rather boring, but I absolutely adore the film, especially Poledouris score and the annoying teens getting DESTROYED by the Bugs. Fuck this guy and fuck this remake. More
Posted by presidentcletus at 14:32 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post
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Evidence is mounting against claims that dinosaurs could not have been
endothermic, including a new analysis of fossil microstructures found in ruminants, lizards, dinosaurs and crocodiles
By Brian Switek and Nature magazine
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June 27, 2012?|
Studying modern mammals can provide insights into the metabolism of dinosaurs.
Image: Walter Myers /Stocktrek Images/Corbis
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From Nature magazine
From museums to Hollywood films, dinosaurs are portrayed as highly active animals, but how they maintained this lifestyle isn?t clear. For decades, palaeontologists have debated whether the physiology of non-avian dinosaurs was akin to that of today's cold-blooded reptiles or warm-blooded mammals. An important clue has now been uncovered ? not in Triceratops and its relatives, but in herbivorous mammals.
Palaeontologists have often examined bone microstructure in their investigations of dinosaur growth and physiology. Key to arguments on the subject are lines of arrested growth (LAGs) that represent an annual slowdown ? typically tied to a cold or dry season during which resources are scarce. These rings are seen in dinosaurs, as well as in creatures such as lizards and crocodiles, whose body temperatures are regulated by the external environment, but have not often been observed in the bones of endotherms ? creatures such as mammals that maintain high, constant body temperatures. But in a study published today in Nature, palaeontologist Meike K?hler at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Bellaterra, Spain, and her colleagues report that LAGs are present in ruminants from the tropics to the poles, greatly altering the context of the dinosaur-physiology debate.
Seasonal shut-down
Although LAGs have been found in mammalian bones before, K?hler notes, this is the most comprehensive study of the structures in modern mammals across a range of latitudes. The herbivorous, hoofed mammals all slow their growth when faced with harsh conditions. This is the best way to cope with a cold or dry season, K?hler says ? ?to shut down the energy demands of the body?. The slowdown produces LAGs, even in endothermic organisms, and is an ancient mechanism for coping with lean times.
This means that ?LAGs cannot be used as an argument that dinosaurs could not have been endothermic?, K?hler says. In fact, the type of bone tissue seen in between dinosaur LAGs indicates the animals grew rapidly and sustained high metabolic rates. Dinosaur bone tissue is indistinguishable from that of today?s endothermic ruminants, K?hler says, meaning that dinosaurs were endothermic, too.
Anatomist John Hutchinson of London's Royal Veterinary College says that the study ?puts a nail in the coffin for the idea that mammals do not routinely exhibit LAGs as a natural part of their growth?. And Hutchinson agrees that the study may help us to better understand dinosaur physiology.
Although he notes that the argument over dinosaur physiology involves a number of factors ? including histology and adaptations for rapid movement ? Hutchinson says that K?hler's study provides additional evidence for dinosaur endothermy. ?The growing weight of evidence has been winning over scientists, myself included, to the view that endothermy evolved quite early in dinosaurs and was inherited by birds,? he says
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on June 27, 2012.
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