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(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips. http://www.physorg.com/news177088957.html Technology - Semiconductors Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:39 EST news177088957 Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types. http://www.physorg.com/news176064260.html Technology - Semiconductors Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:09:31 EST news176064260 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a CMOS (semiconductor) camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will impact on all the most advanced areas of science and makes Europe the world leader in the technology. http://www.physorg.com/news173957578.html Technology - Semiconductors Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:39:01 EST news173957578 Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as logic circuits to be used in future Intel microprocessors. http://www.physorg.com/news172852816.html Technology - Semiconductors Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:10:01 EST news172852816 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs. http://www.physorg.com/news172481493.html Technology - Semiconductors Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:10:01 EST news172481493 (PhysOrg.com) -- An MIT team led by Tomás Palacios, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has succeeded in combining two semiconductor materials, silicon and gallium nitride, that have different and potentially complementary characteristics, into a single hybrid microchip. This is something researchers have been attempting to do for decades. http://www.physorg.com/news172316465.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:43:14 EST news172316465 Taiwan's chip makers, powerful drivers of growth on the island, may have survived their worst crisis ever, but lacklustre sales and new rivals still make these risky times. http://www.physorg.com/news172300918.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:40:01 EST news172300918 (PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic that conducts electricity holds promise for cheaper, thinner and more flexible electronics. This technology is already available in some gadgets -- the new Sony walkman that was introduced earlier this summer and the Microsoft Zune HD music player released last week both incorporate organic light-emitting electronic displays. http://www.physorg.com/news169736246.html Technology - Semiconductors Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:58:12 EST news169736246 Until now, creating the microchips that power all of our electronic gadgets has been a laborious, complex and time-consuming process costing billions of dollars. But if a Milpitas, Calif.-based startup succeeds, making them could be as easy as printing a piece of paper. http://www.physorg.com/news169319540.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:13:15 EST news169319540 (PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful new radio technologies that promise blisteringly fast WiFi have been given a boost by a team of European researchers` cutting-edge work on miniscule microchips. http://www.physorg.com/news168099929.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:50:01 EST news168099929 (PhysOrg.com) -- The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily fabricated 'crossbar' architecture. http://www.physorg.com/news167493381.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:20:05 EST news167493381 Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news166855411.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:10:01 EST news166855411 (PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will enable industry to pursue even better and faster chips. While optical lithography is being pushed to its limits in the semiconductor industry, there is a growing concern whether metrology tools can keep pace for creating and inspecting the new generation of devices. http://www.physorg.com/news166804847.html Technology - Semiconductors Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:41:23 EST news166804847 European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors. http://www.physorg.com/news164444744.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:06:21 EST news164444744 A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT. http://www.physorg.com/news164337084.html Technology - Semiconductors Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:11:37 EST news164337084 Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells and thermoelectric devices that convert sun light and waste heat, respectively, into useful electrical energy. http://www.physorg.com/news163949686.html Technology - Semiconductors Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:35:18 EST news163949686 Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news160312653.html Technology - Semiconductors Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:18:00 EST news160312653 Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML on Wednesday announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news158991897.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:26:17 EST news158991897 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed the world`s smallest diamond transistor. http://www.physorg.com/news158946763.html Technology - Semiconductors Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:53:11 EST news158946763 Despite the economic slump that has battered the semiconductor business, a new player from the United States' Silicon Valley technology belt is investing billions of dollars in a bid to catch the next wave of growth. http://www.physorg.com/news158504961.html Technology - Semiconductors Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:09:54 EST news158504961 Worldwide semiconductor sales declined 28.6 percent in January from a year ago as the global recession continued to take a big bite out of the computer chip industry, an industry tracker said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news155223014.html Technology - Semiconductors Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:31:32 EST news155223014 Toshiba Corporation today announced the prototype of a new FeRAM -- Ferroelectric Random Access Memory -- that redefines industry benchmarks for density and operating speed. The new chip realizes storage of 128-megabits and read and write speeds of 1.6-gigabytes a second, the most advanced combination of performance and density yet achieved. Full details of the new FeRAM will be presented this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2009 (ISSCC2009) in San Francisco, USA. http://www.physorg.com/news153420638.html Technology - Semiconductors Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:52:21 EST news153420638 At this week`s International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave the way to second-generation 60GHz radios by 2010 which will rely solely on plain CMOS, true one-chip solutions. IMEC also demonstrated multi-gigabit per second wireless communication with its 60GHz module that integrates IMEC proprietary antenna and antenna interface with its 45nm multiple antenna RF front-end chip. http://www.physorg.com/news153408987.html Technology - Semiconductors Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:37:01 EST news153408987 NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the operation of a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop (MFF). http://www.physorg.com/news150394868.html Technology - Semiconductors Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:21:08 EST news150394868 Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based diode with a new junction structure called "Natural Super Junction". The new GaN diode with low operating loss is applicable to a variety of consumer and industrial power switching systems. http://www.physorg.com/news148745157.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:05:57 EST news148745157 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fujitsu Laboratories announced today the development of power-saving CMOS technology for logic LSI chips for 32 nanometer- (32nm-) generation and beyond. The new technology enables employment of a specific silicon crystal surface, which previously had not been applied in silicon substrates due to the crystal surface's conventionally low performance in the past, by improving its performance. http://www.physorg.com/news148666062.html Technology - Semiconductors Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:42 EST news148666062 Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer chip-maker, said Wednesday that it has developed a manufacturing process that shrinks the circuitry in a chip to just 32 nanometers. http://www.physorg.com/news148134336.html Technology - Semiconductors Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:25:36 EST news148134336 (PhysOrg.com) -- When consumers use their cell phones, reception can depend on the strength of the signals coming to and from wireless base stations. Those base stations in turn depend on high-power amplifiers to extend their range - amplifiers that typically consume ten times more power than they generate, for a 10 percent efficiency rate. http://www.physorg.com/news147014266.html Technology - Semiconductors Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:17:46 EST news147014266 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a promising solution to ‘mask-less` semiconductor lithography and generated intense interest among major industry players. http://www.physorg.com/news147009333.html Technology - Semiconductors Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:55:33 EST news147009333 (PhysOrg.com) -- This week Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) gave a slide presentation that included Intelīs recently developed 80-core processor. This isn't the first time that the 80-core chip was mentioned in a conference. http://www.physorg.com/news146400330.html Technology - Semiconductors Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:45:30 EST news146400330