The company behind it has the backing of some smart Silicon Valley investors, but I've been somewhat dubious about its long-term prospects.
Moreover, the porous silicon smart dust can be easily probed using noninvasive techniques.
Dubai's smart city, the Silicon Oasis Smart City initiative,2 is currently being developed to meet the not long future needs of the Dubai Plan 2021.
"Intel Capital invests in the technology continuum that runs from wearables and the Internet of Things to big data analytics –and everything in between, including silicon, smart devices, PCs, the cloud and datacenters," Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital and Intel EVP, said in a statement today.
Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority, Smart, Getting Smarter: https://www.dsoa.ae/en/smart-city/, [Seen October 26 , 2015.
Silicon smarts ReprintsThen in 1996 the Russian government conducted its own inventory.
Silicon smarts ReprintsThe protein from which prions are formed (known, with startling originality, as prion protein) is found in almost all tissues in man and beast.
Silicon smarts ReprintsThis space-saving technique is already being used commercially in a four-layer memory chip that packs 128 megabits of data into an amazingly small one-centimetre-square package.
Silicon smarts ReprintsIn recent experiments carried out by Chiara Conti and other members of Dr Bensimon's team, molecular combing was used to identify a genetic defect responsible for cancer of the kidney, which is notoriously difficult to diagnose in its early (and therefore treatable) stages.
Waveguides optimised at 1.5 μm have been fabricated from erbium-doped Smart Cut® silicon-on-insulator wafers.
The National, http://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/dh1-billion-smart-city-planned-for-dubai-silicon-oasis, Dh1 Billion Smart City Planned for Dubai Silicon Oasis [seen on October 28, 2015].
