[H]ardNews 7th Edition

Mass Exodus:

Hynix loses 50 more executives today, just one day after the VP stepped down. What is up with the troubled memory maker? Who knows, I am amazed they have made it as far along as they have.

About 50 company executives at troubled DRAM maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have resigned, according to a Dow Jones Business News report. “As part of measures to maintain the company's competitiveness, the executives earlier this week elected to resign,” a spokesman is quoted as saying.

Nintendo & 3D Memory:

Remember that stacked cell memory from early 2002 that was announced by a company called Matrix? They are back in the news for striking a deal with Nintendo to develop memory for the game maker.

Nintendo has invested $15 million in Matrix Semicondcutors Inc., which has developed a non-volatile 3D memory, Matrix said this week. The investment in Matrix was made quietly last year by Nintendo. Observers said it shows Nintendo's strong interest in the memory technology. "We are always looking for good solutions for our mobile game" devices, said Nintendo spokesman Ken Toyoda. "Matrix's 3D memory is one such possibility."

Perfect Automotive Engine:

Well, that is what they are saying. Now, they had better develop at least a prototype or something…cause this I gotta see. Thanks Blair and Wicker Bill.

Marlan Scully, the Texas A&M University professor who applied quantum physics to the automotive engine and came up with a design that emits laser beams instead of exhaust, has been tinkering under the hood again. This time, he's sized up the perfect engine -- and improved it. Scully, known as the "Quantum Cowboy" for his innovations in quantum physics and his Franklin Society prize-winning research into beef cattle production, has invented a theoretical design more efficient than the Carnot engine, which had stood for nearly two centuries as the standard for efficiency -- an engine so ideal it exists only in theory.