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Recyclable printed circuit boards

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), along with partners In2Tec Ltd (UK) and Gwent Electronic Materials Ltd, have developed a printed circuit board (PCB) whose components can be easily separated by immersion in hot water. ...

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created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 3

New IGZO oxide semiconductor technology may revolutionize displays

Sharp Corporation and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory have jointly developed a new oxide semiconductor (IGZO) technology with high crystallinity. This material will enable even higher resolutions, lower power consumption, ...

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created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Unique approach to materials allows temperature-stable circuits

(Phys.org) -- Sandia National Laboratories researcher Steve Dai jokes that his approach to creating materials whose properties won’t degenerate during temperature swings is a lot like cooking — mixing ...

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan's Renesas ups chip outsourcing to Taiwan giant

Japan's Renesas Electronics said Monday it will boost the outsourcing of its chip production to Taiwan's TSMC, but it declined comment on reports it would cut about 30 percent of its staff.

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created May 28, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer

Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or how about transferring a typical 2-hour, 8-gigabyte DVD movie ...

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created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Researchers prove new circuit pattern-design process, see promise for 14 nanometer design with directed self-assembly

(Phys.org) -- Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced that they have successfully created contact hole patterns for a wide variety of practical logic and memory devices ...

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created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

LEDs on silicon can reduce production costs

A new manufacturing technology is expected to greatly reduce the cost of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the future. For the first time ever, researchers at the Siemens subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors ...

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New silicon memory chip developed

(Phys.org) -- The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions – opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Samsung now producing industry's first highest density mobile LPDDR2 memory, using 20nm-class technology

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun producing the industry’s first four gigabit (Gb), low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) memory using 20 nanometer (nm) class technology. The mobile DRAM (dynamic ...

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Toshiba announces next-generation superjunction technology for power MOSFETs

Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) today announced its DTMOS-IV process, a new-generation of superjunction (SJ) technology for power MOSFETs. Products based on the DTMOS-IV technology will make ...

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Performance boost for microchips

The semiconductor industry is faced with the challenge of supplying ever faster and more powerful chips. The Next-Generation Lithography with EUV radiation will help meeting that challenge. Fraunhofer researchers ...

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Toshiba expands family of high-speed, low-voltage MOSFETs with new 60V and 120V devices

Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) today announced that it has expanded its family of low-voltage, high-speed MOSFETs with new, ultra-efficient 60V and 120V devices that will save space and reduce ...

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To DDR3: Thanks for the memory but time for DDR4

(Phys.org) -- Micron Technology is polishing up its DDR4 memory modules, “sampling” the modules and getting feedback from major customers. The company plans to reach volume production later this year ...

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created May 10, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 43 | with audio podcast report

Freescale introduces 64-bit quad-core QorIQ P5040 processor for power-sensitive control plane applications

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two 64-bit, multicore QorIQ P5 family control plane processors delivering 2.4 GHz of single threaded performance per core. The new quad-core QorIQ P5040 and dual-core P5021 products feature ...

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imec demonstrates a low-power 7Gbps 60GHz transceiver for the wireless consumer market

Imec, in collaboration with Panasonic, has developed a prototype of a 60GHz radio transceiver allowing to reach data rates of 7Gbps over short distances at very low power consumption. The chip achieves this ...

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created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0