Semiconductors news
IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore’s Law beyond its expected limits. The technology ...
Apr 12, 2007 |
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Silent, microchip-sized 'fan' has no moving parts, yet produces enough wind to cool a laptop
Engineers harnessing the same physical property that drives silent household air purifiers have created a miniaturized device that is now ready for testing as a silent, ultra-thin, low-power and low maintenance ...
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip
Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 ...
May 13, 2008 |
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Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing
The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.
Jun 27, 2008 |
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IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype
IBM researchers today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to all kinds ...
Feb 28, 2008 |
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IBM Reveals Breakthrough eDRAM Memory Technology
In papers presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, IBM revealed a first-of-its-kind, on-chip memory technology that features the fastest access times ever recorded in eDRAM (Embedded ...
Feb 14, 2007 |
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IBM's breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells
In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a reco ...
Jun 29, 2008 |
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IBM researchers demonstrate world's fastest optical chipset
At the 2007 Optical Fiber Conference, IBM scientists will reveal a prototype optical transceiver chipset capable of reaching speeds at least eight times faster than optical components available today.
Mar 26, 2007 |
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Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors
German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity
Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device.
Nov 06, 2007 |
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Dell Talking About 80-Core Chip Processor
(PhysOrg.com) -- This week Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) gave a slide presentation that included Intel´s recently developed 80-core processor. This isn't the first time that the 80-core chip was mentioned in ...
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Slicing solar power costs: New method cuts waste in making most efficient solar cells
University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost ...
Sep 15, 2008 |
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IBM Alliances Announce Advancement in High-K/Metal Gate Technology
IBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- announced an innovative approach to speed the implementation of a breakthrough material ...
Dec 14, 2007 |
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Glass fibers instead of copper cables
Semiconductor technology is expensive. Novel optical microchips made of plastic are set to bring down the price of fiber-optic technology in future. Personal fiber-optic connections for private individuals ...
Jul 24, 2006 |
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