Unique locks on microchips could reduce hardware piracyHardware piracy, or making knock-off microchips based on stolen blueprints, is a burgeoning problem in the electronics industry. |
![]() IBM Alliances Announce Advancement in High-K/Metal Gate TechnologyIBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- announced an innovative approach to speed the implementation of a breakthrough material ... |
Research Leads to Self-Improving Chips with Speed 'Warping'Imagine owning an automobile that can change its engine to suit your driving needs – when you’re tooling about town, it works like a super-fast sports car; when you’re hauling a heavy load, it operates like a strong, durable ... |
IMEC demonstrates multimedia decoding on reconfigurable processor with record power efficiencyIMEC developed a reconfigurable processor for video decoding achieving power efficiencies 6 to 12 times higher than state-of-the-art C-programmed processors. The processor was derived from IMEC’s C-programmable ADRES (Architecture ... |
![]() Apple Updates iMacs With Latest Chip (Update)(AP) -- Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday updated its iMac line with Intel Corp.'s latest microprocessors. |
Sematech to Investigate Alternate Channel Materials for Advanced MicrochipsPushed by the scaling limits of silicon-based devices, Sematech engineers have launched a project to investigate alternative materials to Si in MOSFET channels, the critical pathways that allow electrical signals to flow ... |
Four universities join to establish Western Institute of NanoelectronicsThe UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of California, Berkeley; and Stanford are teaming up to launch what will be one of the world's ... |
Europe's Vestel introduces media playersFreescale Semiconductor's applications processors will be used in a line of portable media players being developed in Europe by Vestel Electronics. |
![]() UF engineer develops tiny, easily mass-produced motion sensorA University of Florida engineer is the latest researcher to design a tiny, easy-to-manufacture motion sensor, a development that could help popularize the sensors as standard equipment in personal electronics, ... |
Freescale creates first commercially viable GaAs MOSFET deviceFreescale Semiconductor has developed the industry's first device that combines the high performance of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor compounds with the advantages of traditional metal oxide semiconductor field effect ... |
Wireless World: Sensors detect icy bridgesA suspension bridge is perilously close to collapse, but secret federal agents learn about the pending disaster on their Palm Pilots and dash to the site and are able to stop the catastrophe just in time. The real hero here, ... |
Briefs: Broadband expands in-car entertainmentJan 06, 2006 | pda version
Car video entertainment is taking steps toward becoming ubiquitous through the use of wireless broadband technologies on display in Las Vegas this week. |
Freescale launches 'Cable-Free USB' initiative for wireless connectivityCreating a new wireless path for Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 devices, Freescale Semiconductor, along with leading manufacturers, has launched a Cable-Free USB initiative. Powered by Freescale's Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, ... |
![]() Vertical transistor architecture breaks through CMOS scaling barriersFreescale Semiconductor has demonstrated a breakthrough transistor that overcomes many of the design and manufacturing challenges associated with vertical multi-gate devices. |
World's first SOI MOSFET with crystalline Gd2O3Researchers at AMICA have successfully fabricated the world's first MOSFETs on ultra-thin-body silicon-on-insulator (SOI) material with a crystalline gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3) gate dielectric. |