May 9, 2011 - Industry News
From The First Transistor to Intel 3D
Technology has made great progress since the transistor's invention in 1947. This had led to the creation of more powerful, more energy use
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January 3, 2011 - Industry News
Researchers put solar cells directly on microchips
What would be better than very low power chips that allow you to have hours and hours of battery life? How about chips that don't even need a ...
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September 10, 2010 - Industry News
Quantum mechanics meets computer chess to defy physicists, computers and grandmasters alike
The inexorable multiplication of transistors predicted by Moore's Law always predicted the toppling of human chess grandmasters by dedicated ...
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February 9, 2010 - Technology News
IBM Fabricates 100GHz Graphene Transistor to get even Faster
As our current silicon-based transistors reach the smallest-possible sizes, scientists and engineers are forced look into using different ...
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December 9, 2009 - Industry News
Apple unimpressed with Intel’s Arrandale integrated graphics
The Mac maker is reportedly avoiding Intel’s next-generation notebook platform because it views its integrated graphics as a weak link. ...
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December 2, 2009 - Industry News
Apple Accused of Milking Extra Profits Out of NAND Flash Vendors
Apple is using its buying power and a huge appetite for the NAND flash memory chips in order to manipulate the market to its own advantage. ...
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October 9, 2009 - Industry News
ARM Reveals Results of 45nm SOI Test Chip
ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings ...
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August 6, 2009 - Technology News
The chip industry runs on Spruce Pine’s high-quality quartz
A few weeks ago we walked you through the process of building a processor from “sand to hand” and now the BBC has an excellent article up on ...
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July 9, 2009 - Technology News
Tiny robot made to crawl through your veins
With this invention by Scientists from Israel’s Technion university, the doctors would no longer have to cut open a patients body to cure ...
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June 26, 2009 - Technology News
ATI and Nvidia have troubling 40nm yields from TSMC
Two articles have appeared recently citing sub-30% yields from TSMC’s 40nm process technology. This has the potential to impact you and I, the ...
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April 28, 2009 - Top Story News
Memory signs show semiconductor recession may be ending
Charts published by iSuppli at the Wall Street Journal show a very clear sign of exactly how forecasts and current performance in the DRAM and ...
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April 23, 2009 - Industry News
Chinese semiconductor foundries facing major consolidation
Research firm iSuppli issued a press release on Monday citing foundry utilization in China has fallen to 43% in 1Q 2009, down from a previous ...
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August 22, 2008 - Industry News
Solar Silicon Could See 43% Price Drop
We’ve been hearing for awhile that solar silicon production is going from scrambling to catch up, to having way too much stock. Now we have an ...
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July 10, 2007 - Technology News
Solar cells with 63% efficiency by 2020
Current solar cell technology can achieve mid-20% efficiency with relative ease in manufacturing and use. A recent announcement of ...
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May 3, 2007 - Industry News
AMD K7 Chipsets
AMD is fervently enlisting the help of VIA and ALI, two chipset makers, to make its K7 a success. AMD will focus on development of dual ...
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April 5, 2007 - Industry News
Politics enters the semiconductor world
What do you do when you're an embedded developer working on a fabulous new project that will make both you and your company lots of money? If you ...
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March 7, 2007 - Technology News
EUV lithography issues threaten Moore's Law
It looks like extreme ultraviolet lithography technology is beginning to frustrate the IC tool manufacturers of the world, and it may encounter ...
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September 29, 2006 - Industry News
AMD to hold its own developer forum
For years, AMD has been a type of parasite found routinely feasting in a nearby hotel outside of Intel's biannual Developer Forum. Intel would ...
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August 23, 2006 - Technology News
New mobile concept phone pushes design and technology
The mobile phones of the future may not be anything like the phones of today, and one of the biggest differences may be the elimination ...
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July 20, 2006 - Technology News
Where is technology taking us?
Once upon a time computers were going to make our lives easier, they were going to enable us to work less hours, get things done ...
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May 3, 2006 - Industry News
Electronics giants see profits turnaround
After a long period of downturn in the Japanese market, it seems the electronics giants are once again starting to see gains. Recent announcements from ...
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