 IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension April 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 177 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 Silent, microchip-sized 'fan' has no moving parts, yet produces enough wind to cool a laptop March 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
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 ... | |
 IBM Reveals Breakthrough eDRAM Memory Technology February 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 104 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 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. | |
 Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 83 vote(s)
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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. | |
 IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
Intel Demonstrates Industry's First 32nm Chip and Next-Generation Nehalem Microprocessor Architecture September 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today outlined new products, chip designs and manufacturing technologies that will enable the company to continue its quickened pace of product and technology leadership. | |
 Sharp Develops Mass-Production Technology for Triple-Junction Thin-Film Solar Cells January 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Sharp Corporation has successfully developed mass-production technology for stacked triple-junction thin-film solar cells by turning a conventional two-active-layer structure (amorphous silicon plus microcrystalline ... | |
HP Unveils Revolutionary Wireless Chip that Links the Digital and Physical Worlds July 17, 2006 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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HP today announced that its researchers have developed a miniature wireless data chip that could provide broad access to digital content in the physical world. | |
Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
IMEC demonstrates feasibility of double patterning immersion litho for 32nm node October 18, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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IMEC showed in collaboration with ASML the potential of double patterning 193nm immersion lithography at 1.2NA for 32nm node Flash and logic. | |
 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. | |
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