Intel, Samsung, TSMC Reach Agreement for 450mm Wafer Manufacturing TransitionIntel Corp., Samsung Electronics and TSMC today announced they have reached agreement on the need for industry-wide collaboration to target a transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger ... |
Engineers demonstrate nanotube wires operating at speed of commercial chipsIntegrated circuits, such as the silicon chips inside all modern electronics, are only as good as their wiring, but copper conduits are approaching physical performance limitations as they get thinner. |
![]() AMD Delivers ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 GPUAMD today announced the immediate availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics processor, expanding the visual boundaries of PC entertainment well beyond the 1080P High Definition (HD) threshold. The ... |
![]() IMEC increases performance of high-k metal gate planar CMOS and FinFETsAt today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates ... |
AMD Unleashes Enthusiast Gaming Performance for the Masses with ATI Radeon HD 3800 SeriesAMD today announced the introduction and immediate availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of graphics processing units (GPU). As the world’s first series of graphics processors to deliver Microsoft’s DirectX 10.1 support, ... |
![]() IMEC advancing state-of-the-art in FinFETsAt this week’s VLSI Symposium, IMEC presents significant progress in the manufacturability, circuit performance and reliability of FinFETs. The results advance FinFET process technology towards being a candidate ... |
Hynix joins IMEC's (sub-)32nm CMOS research platformHynix Semiconductor has entered into a strategic partnership with IMEC, Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research center, to perform research and development for the (sub)-32nm memory process generations. |
Memjet Customers, Roadmap Start Taking ShapePC OEMs and camera makers could be among the customers for Memjet's revolutionary inkjet printers that were first disclosed last week. Meanwhile, the company has already ... |
Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock IndustrySilverbrook Research has developed the Memjet, a nanotech-fueled, consumer inkjet printer that can print sixty pages a minute for under $200. And it works. |
TSMC Manufactures First Functional 65nm Embedded DRAM DeviceTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. today announced the foundry industry’s first functional 65nm embedded DRAM customer product. The product contains millions of DRAM bits and was silicon verified first time ... |
IMEC demonstrates viability of laser anneal for the 32nm nodeAt today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports that laser anneal is a promising option for further transistor scaling to the 32nm node. By device demonstration, IMEC shows that laser anneal allows to ... |
![]() Applied Materials, IMEC Team to Develop Innovative 32nm, 22nm InterconnectsApplied Materials and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research center, announced today a significant joint effort to develop 32nm and 22nm-node copper/low k interconnect ... |
IMEC reports CMOS integration of Hf-based dielectrics with Ni FUSI gatesAt today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC announces a simple CMOS integration scheme of a NiSi gate for NMOS and a Ni2Si gate for PMOS on HfSiON with simultaneous 2-step silicidation. The potential of this ... |
Improved Materials Dominate Chip EvolutionMaterial innovation has replaced scaling as the primary source of performance and feature improvements in leading-edge CMOS semiconductors, IBM technologist Paul Farrar, Jr. told attendees at the ISMI Symposium on Manufacturing ... |
Kodak Announces 39-megapixel CCD Image SensorEastman Kodak Company has set the quality standard for digital imaging with new high-resolution image sensors that allow commercial, studio, and other professional photographers to capture digital images with the most life-like ... |