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CEO-Inteview"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Self-made billionaire Larry Ellison has built Oracle Corp into one of the world's most powerful technology companies through a series of ambitious acquisitions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a recent interview with Reuters, Oracle CEO Ellison talked about competing against IBM and EMC Corp, plans for more acquisitions, how Salesforce.com is too expensive, litigation against SAP and possible succession plans at Oracle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EQ. Now that you're selling both software and hardware, what is your acquisition strategy?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA.\u003C\/b\u003E You will see us make acquisitions in almost every area. Maybe not so much database anymore, though even around the peripheries of the database. You will see us make acquisitions in storage, networking, all sorts of low-level software management tools and applications in a great variety of industries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EQ. You didn't mention semiconductors.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA.\u003C\/b\u003E I think you could see us buying into additional silicon for a variety of things, like security, for example. I really can't outline all of that, but you'll see us deep into silicon. I think you'll see a lot of the things that Oracle builds in software right now, you'll see finding its way down into silicon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EQ. Oracle is no longer just a software company. What is Oracle?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA.\u003C\/b\u003E Oracle is a systems company. We're not a hardware company. We're not a software company. We are a systems company. We want to deliver compete working systems. Now, of course we are a software company. If you just want to buy our database, God bless you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe sell system components like database and middleware and operating systems and chips and all that other jazz. We even sell tape heads. We sell tape heads to HP. So we are definitely in the system component business. Where we think we'll make our money. Where we think we're able to differentiate ourselves from IBM and everybody else is by building complete and integrated systems from silicon all the way up through the software, all prepackaged together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou don't have to hire a systems integrator to put all these pieces together. A lot of this stuff is preintegrated, which should make it much more reliable much, more lower cost. Get it up and running much faster. That is our goal. 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At this size, 1,000  world maps could fit on a grain of salt.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2, and was created in only 2 minutes and 23 seconds, the  'Science and Advanced Materials' journal reported.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe core component of the new technique, which was developed by a team of IBM scientists, is a  tiny, very sharp silicon tip measuring 500 nanometers in length and only a few  nanometers at its apex.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Advances in nanotechnology are intimately linked to the existence of high-quality methods and tools for producing nanoscale  patterns and objects on surfaces,\" said physicist Dr Armin Knoll of IBM Research  in Zurich.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"With its broad functionality and unique 3D patterning capability, this nanotip-based patterning methodology is a powerful tool  for generating very small structures,\" he added. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWhole story \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/04\/100423220607.htm\"\u003Esciencedaily.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe science behind the technique\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe core component of the new technique, which was developed by a team of IBM scientists, is a tiny, very sharp silicon tip measuring 500 nanometers in length and only a few nanometers at its apex.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Advances in nanotechnology are intimately linked to the existence of high-quality methods and tools for producing nanoscale patterns and objects on surfaces,\" explains physicist Dr. Armin Knoll of IBM Research -- Zurich. \"With its broad functionality and unique 3D patterning capability, this nanotip-based patterning methodology is a powerful tool for generating very small structures.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tip, similar to the kind used in atomic force microscopes, is attached to a bendable cantilever that controllably scans the surface of the substrate material with the accuracy of one nanometer -- a millionth of a millimeter. By applying heat and force, the nano-sized tip can remove substrate material based on predefined patterns, thus operating like a \"nanomilling\" machine with ultra-high precision.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESimilar to using a milling machine, more material can be removed to create complex 3D structures with nanometer precision by modulating the force or by readdressing individual spots. To create the 3D replica of the Matterhorn, for example, 120 individual layers of material were successively removed from the molecular glass substrate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EComparing to e-beam lithography\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new IBM technique achieves resolutions as high as 15 nanometers -- with a potential of going even smaller. Using existing methods such as e-beam lithography,*** it is becoming increasingly challenging to fabricate patterns at resolutions below 30 nanometers, where the technical limitations of that method are reached.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat's more, compared to expensive e-beam-lithography tools that require several processing steps and equipment that can easily fill a laboratory, the tool created by IBM scientists -- which can sit on a tabletop -- promises improved and extended capabilities at very high resolutions, but at one-fifth to one tenth of the cost and with far less complexity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYet another advantage of the nanotip-based technique is the ability to assess the pattern directly by using the same tip to create an image of the written structures, as the IBM scientists demonstrated in their experiments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPotential applications range from the fast prototyping of nano-sized devices for future computer chips to the production of well defined micron-sized optical elements like aspheric lenses and lens-arrays for optoelectronics and on-chip optical communication.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMaterials breakthrough\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the two publications, the scientists describe their novel 3D-nanopatterning methodology for two very distinct and promising types of substrate materials: a polymer called polyphthalaldehyde and a molecular glass similar to substrate materials used in conventional nanofabrication techniques, so-called resists. Identifying these two materials was a key factor for the breakthrough performance and reliability of the technique.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn their search for suitable and efficient substrate materials, the scientists concentrated on organic materials that could be used as resists, thereby following the same philosophy as used for today's semiconductor technology, which is important for further integration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The material was a 'make it or break it' issue,\" explains Jim Hedrick, scientist at IBM Research -- Almaden. \"We had to find and synthesize materials which form mechanically tough glasses and yet can be easily thermally decomposed into non-reactive volatile units.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe molecular glass that was used in the Matterhorn experiment consists of snow-flake-like molecules, measuring about one nanometer and having an almost spherical shape. At a tip temperature above 330 degrees C (626 degrees F), the hydrogen bonds that hold the molecules together break, allowing the molecular parts to become mobile and to escape from the surface. A particular strength of the material is that the patterned molecular glass can be transferred by means of conventional etching techniques to, for example, silicon, which is common in the semiconductor industry. Molecular glass was first proposed in the late 1990s by Mitsuru Ueda of Yamagata University, Japan, for use as high-resolution photoresists and was thereafter developed by Chris Ober of Cornell University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nanosized 3D world map was created in a polymer called polyphthalaldehyde, a polymer originally developed by IBM Fellow Hiroshi Ito in the 1980s. Exposed to substantially elevated temperatures, the components of this chain-like organic molecule unzip and fall into volatile pieces. A self-amplified reaction causes the molecule to decompose and then accelerates the entire patterning process by being even faster than the mechanical motion of the tip.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIBM and nanotechnology\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBM has been a pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology ever since the development of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in 1981 by IBM Fellows Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer. For this invention, which made it possible to image individual atoms and later on to manipulate them, Binnig and Rohrer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. The atomic force microscope, an offspring of the STM, was invented by Binnig in 1986. The STM is widely regarded as the instrument that opened the door to the nanoworld.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact it was 20 years ago this month that IBM Fellow Don Eigler reported the first controlled movement of individual atoms, famously using a scanning tunneling microscope to spell out the letters \"I B M\" with 35 xenon atoms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese historic breakthroughs laid a solid foundation for IBM's continued research in nanoscience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContributing to this rich history for years to come, a new world-class collaborative nanoscale research lab is currently under construction on the campus of IBM Research -- Zurich. This state-of-the-art nanotech center, which will open next year, is part of a strategic partnership in nanotechnology between IBM Research and ETH Zurich, one of Europe's leading technical universities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENotes\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Taking 0.3 mm as the average size of a grain of salt, 1000 maps would span the diameter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E** One nanometer in the vertical pattern corresponds to 57 altitude meters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*** This method selectively exposes a surface to a beam of electrons, thereby creating patterns in a film, called a resist. The resist serves as a template for transferring the pattern to various materials, for example silicon, by means of etching. It is one of the most versatile and mature methods used today, but it is very costly and complex."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2480611275457650884\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=5403865830110720728\u0026postID=2480611275457650884\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/2480611275457650884"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5403865830110720728\/posts\/default\/2480611275457650884"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/hypedtalk.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/ibm-research-creates-worlds-smallest-3d.html","title":"IBM Research creates world's smallest 3D map"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gee TEE"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05453399516295661171"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_6QiA8AKZBbU\/S9OR9UnGLwI\/AAAAAAAABiA\/rRAao4Ry_Sg\/s72-c\/100423220607-large.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});