 Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Power, High-Performance 45nm Logic Chips June 18, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Fujitsu today announced the development of a platform technology for 45 nanometer generation LSI logic chips, which combines technologies for low power consumption and high-performance interconnect. | |
 NEC Develops World's Fastest SRAM-Compatible MRAM With Operation Speed of 250MHz November 30, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in developing a new SRAM-compatible MRAM that can operate at 250MHz, the world's fastest MRAM operation speed. | |
 Cooking up new MEMS November 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are tiny components etched from silicon. Production is extremely complex, sometimes with hundreds of steps, each with dozens of parameters. One European project has developed ... | |
New computer program automates chip debugging November 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious, trial-and-error process that often costs companies millions of dollars and months of time-to-market. | |
Universal ink for microcontact printing June 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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"Printing" on the micrometer scale is the technology of the future for the production of the electronic components used for such things as flat-screen monitors or (bio)sensors. | |
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, ... | |
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 ... | |
 Remembering the future November 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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As electronics designers cram more and more components onto each chip, current technologies for making random-access memory (RAM) are running out of room. European researchers have a strong position in a new ... | |
 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 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 ... | |
 Toshiba Develops New NAND Flash Technology June 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Toshiba Corporation today announced a new three dimensional memory cell array structure that enhances cell density and data capacity without relying on advances in process technology, and with minimal increase ... | |
Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.
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 IBM Pioneers Process to Turn Waste into Solar Energy October 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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IBM today announced an innovative new semiconductor wafer reclamation process pioneered at its Burlington, Vermont manufacturing facility. The new process uses a specialized pattern removal technique to repurpose ... | |
 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. | |
 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 ... | |
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