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  • Lexmark touts faster, quieter, instant warm-up laser printers
    October 23, 2006 – 5:54 PM
    Lexmark today announced five new b/w laser printers for basic office needs that are faster, more reliable and more energy efficient than their predecessors, according to the manufacturer. There are also six new color printers targeting small businesses and enterprise workgroups.
  • ArF laser light source to enable production of sub-45 nm semiconductors
    July 5, 2006 – 9:08 PM
    Cymer, a supplier of deep ultraviolet (DUV) laser light sources currently used in semiconductor manufacturing, today unveiled what the firm claims to be the world's first argon fluoride (ArF) laser light source for 45 nm production immersion photolithography.
  • Sun Researching Super Fast Laser Processors
    March 24, 2008 – 2:10 PM in Buyer's Guides
    Sun says it can achieve a 1000X increase in chip processing power using lasers.
  • Intel takes final hurdle on way to mass-produced silicon laser chips
    September 18, 2006 – 2:52 PM
    Researchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) today said they have succeeded in building the world's first hybrid silicon laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. The technology could be become a key enabler make photonic interconnects in mainstream communications and computing devices a reality.
  • Supply of blue-laser pick-up heads expected to be short in Q4
    July 31, 2006 – 11:47 AM
    The production of blue-laser pick-up heads (PUHs) by only a few makers, including Pioneer, Philips, Hitachi and Sony, is insufficient to meet increasing global demand for blue-laser DVD players, recorders, drives and burners, and the shortage is expected to be significant in the fourth quarter of this year, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
  • Colorado State University develops laser spark plugs
    March 28, 2006 – 7:31 PM
    The spark plugs inside an internal combustion engine erode and need to be replaced regularly because high voltages are required to ignite the engine fuel.
  • CeBIT 2008: Affordable Color Laser Printer from Xerox
    March 6, 2008 – 4:59 PM in CeBIT
    Xerox's color laser printers are finally becoming affordable. At this year's CeBIT, the self-proclaimed document company is introducing a 12 page-per-minute office color-laser printer for under $450.
  • Sanyo Develops 100GB, 12X Blu-ray Laser
    October 6, 2008 – 3:50 PM
    Sanyo this week announced that it has developed a new laser diode that emits a 450 mw (milliwatts) blue laser beam that can read information off of Blu-ray discs at 12X speeds. Best of all, it can also burn to Blu-ray writable discs at the same data rate
  • New Intel laser tech could bring photonics to the masses
    February 16, 2005 – 3:21 PM
    Optical components that provide high-bandwidth data transmission today are mostly used in the telecommunications industry and are often too expensive for mainstream technologies. Intel now claims to have found a way to use silicon as optical material - a discovery that could lead to cheaper lasers as well as faster and more capable networks in the future.
  • World's Most Powerful Laser Fired Up
    April 8, 2008 – 1:54 PM
    Austin (TX) - Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have turned on the Texas Petawatt laser on March 31 for, well, a very brief period of time.
  • Ricoh develops dual-format HD laser
    July 11, 2006 – 12:15 PM
    The battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD to control the high-definition DVD market could be solved by a laser that can read the two competing formats.
  • Laser Alters Color Of Metals, Creates Gold Aluminum
    February 1, 2008 – 2:28 PM
    Scientists at the University of Rochester have found a way to change the intrinsic surface properties of virtually any metal to achieve a change in color.
  • Boeing Prepares Tactical Laser Weapon For Series Of Tests
    December 11, 2007 – 11:23 AM
    Boeing said that it recently installed a high-energy chemical laser, commonly referred to as the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL), aboard a C-130H aircraft.
  • Intel researchers build laser on chip
    January 7, 2005 – 3:33 PM in Build Your Own
    Working with the basic material of computer chips, Intel researchers have constructed an all-silicon laser that could lead to computers one day harnessing light waves rather than electrical currents to shuttle data swiftly.
  • International PC Vendors Hesitant Over Blue-laser Optical Drive Market, Say Taiwan Makers
    December 14, 2007 – 11:44 AM
    International PC vendors, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sony and Taiwan-based Acer and Asustek Computer, have had Blu-ray Disc (BD) or HD DVD optical disc drives on their roadmaps to launch in 2008 but are faced with a dilemma between the large market potential and the uncertainty as to which format to adopt, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

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