New Australian chip design may help to find aliens

Dr Hai (Harris) Le, Project Manager and Chief Designer, holding the microchip on a ballpoint pen.

A quick break from the backup posts, I found this story on ZDNet and thought it was worth a post.

A new electronic chip being developed at La Trobe University’s Centre for Technology Infusion (CTI). It is hoped that the new chip will be integrated into the world’s largest radio telescope.

The chip is being tested at the CSIRO’s ATNF facilities at Marsfield, and it is hoped that it will form part of the Square Kilometre Array, a 1.8 billion dollar project that will be the worlds first global telescope.

Construction will begin on the telescope in 2011. It will be by far the most sensitive radio ever built, designed to pick up signals from space. The telescope is designed to pick up signals such as, Traces of the big bang, pulsars, magnetic fields black holes dark matter and extraterrestrial life.

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Website: ZDNet Australia