Microchip is helping restore vision to the blind June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Last year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, ... | |
Elpida Ready to Launch World's Largest Capacity (16-Gigabyte) FB-DIMM August 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it is ready to launch 16-gigabyte Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM), the world's largest capacity FB-DIMM. Based on its ... | |
 IBM Alliances Announce Advancement in High-K/Metal Gate Technology December 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 Flexible electronics advance boosts performance, manufacturing December 13, 2006 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Flexible electronics made with organic, or carbon-based, transistors could enable technologies such as low-cost sensors on product packaging and ''electronic paper'' displays as thin and floppy as a placemat. ... | |
UMC's Embedded DRAM, URAM Proven in 65nm Customer Silicon August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has produced functional 65nm customer products incorporating URAM, the company's patented embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology. | |
 SSRL Aids Development of Plastic Electronics May 04, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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For close to a decade, researchers have been trying to improve the performance of plastic semiconductors to the level of amorphous silicon—the semiconductor used in low-cost electronics such as photovoltaic ... | |
 Sony develops new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor June 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Sony Corporation today announced the development of a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor (pixel size: 1.75µm square pixels, five effective mega pixels, 60 frames/s) with significantly enhanced imaging characteristics, ... | |
 IMEC reports major progress in EUV July 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
IMEC reports functional 0.186µm2 32nm SRAM cells made with FinFETs from which the contact layer was successfully printed using ASML’s full field extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). Applied Materials, ... | |
New record for world's fastest transistor set August 16, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Engineers in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (University of Southampton, UK) have developed a method to make bipolar transistors twice as fast as current devices. | |
 Glass fibers instead of copper cables July 24, 2006 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
Intel Outlines Plans for New Category of Smarter, Purpose-Built 'System on Chip' Designs July 24, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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As Internet access continues to be added to all kinds of computers and devices, Intel executives outlined a plan to use its chip design expertise, factory capacity, advanced manufacturing techniques and the economics of Moore's ... | |
 IBM researchers demonstrate world's fastest optical chipset March 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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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. | |
 Copper's not coping: new chips call on light speed January 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor ... | |
 Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity November 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device. | |
 Inexpensive Detector Sees the Invisible, In Color May 24, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of "colors," or wavelengths. | |
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