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Elpida Develops Top-Tier Power Efficient 2Gbps High-Speed DDR3 SDRAM

July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it has developed a top-tier power efficient 1 Gigabit DDR3 SDRAM, which is capable of operating ...


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, ...


Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography

July 09, 2008 | User rating: 1.8 / 5 after 30 vote(s) | User comments: 2

A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor ...


Toshiba Introduces High Power, High Flux 90 Lumen White LED

July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | No comments yet

Toshiba today announced TL12W02-D, a new high power, high brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications that can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens (lm) when driven ...


Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells

June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 45 vote(s) | No comments yet

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 ...


Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing

June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 80 vote(s) | User comments: 15

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.


Exposing the Sensitivity of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists

June 26, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that the photoresists used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing processes now under development are twice as ...


Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors

June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 41 vote(s) | User comments: 10

German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.


Novel memory device is set to rival transistor-switched silicon-based memory

June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Working with an international group of researchers, Professor Gehan Amaratunga has produced a novel memory device which is set to rival transistor-switched silicon-based memory.


Microchip is helping restore vision to the blind

June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | User comments: 5

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, ...


Automated microfluidic device reduces time to screen small organisms for genetic studies

June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Genetic studies on small organisms such as worms and flies can now be done more quickly using a new microfluidic device developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.


Fujitsu Develops Low-power CMOS Technology For 32nm Generation

June 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Fujitsu today announced the development of low-power CMOS technology for 32nm-generation logic LSIs, which makes it possible to minimize the number of necessary manufacturing processes for LSIs, and without ...


Samsung Introduces 90-Nanometer High Performance Smart Card IC

June 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today its 90-nanometer smart card IC with high data storage capacity for subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and mobile ...


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, AIXTRON set important step towards low-cost GaN power devices

June 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

IMEC, Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, and AIXTRON, the world leader in metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment, have demonstrated the growth ...


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