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...Mr Byrnes is working to develop new technologies that will ultimately, he hopes, help deliver the holy grail of the sector — a quantum computer....
...But, like its semiconductor division, the consumer electronics business reeled under relentless Asian competition....
...“The holy grail is autonomous pick-up and drop-off,” says Larson. “You order a car which drives itself to meet you at your chosen point, with the whole fleet controlled by computer.”...
...The Holy Grail: a device with the power and flexibility of a laptop and the portability and battery life of a smartphone....
...people milled around the high-tech devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Thursday it was becoming clear that one of the big trends at this year’s event was the push for a holy grail...
...“It has been something of a holy grail to build monster gigawatt factories using these big pieces of glass to achieve a very low cost per watt,” he says....
...intelligence: “If you are typing on a device so the results can be seen on a screen and it is impossible to tell whether you are using a full-sized keyboard or not, then we will have achieved the Holy Grail...
...These could be in handheld devices or anything with a semiconductor in its innards....
...That’s been the holy grail of the solar industry,” said Dana Younger, head of IFC’s renewable energy infrastructure unit....
...“This has been the Holy Grail of memory,” says Will Strauss, principal analyst at the Forward Concepts research firm....
...There were even rumours it could be working on the holy grail of convergence - a device that handles video, telephony, internet and music....
...Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, will signal next week the onset of a new technology cycle that will determine the winners and losers in the computer industry in the second half of the decade...
...The anti-obesity hormone A cure for obesity that helps patients shed the pounds without the pain is one of the holy grails of drug research....
...But for the world’s largest defence groups, are something of a holy grail. They include arguably some of the industry’s most sophisticated technologies....
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