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A probe pin ring, chip testing equipment, is on display at the three-day annual exhibition on seminconductor equipment

Chip sales down 30 pct in March: SIA

Technology / Business

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Global semiconductor sales fell nearly 30 percent in March compared with a year ago but improved slightly over the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Friday.


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Semiconductor sales down 28.6 pct in January: SIA

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.





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Rambus says FTC has dropped antitrust claims

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Rambus Inc. said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has dropped its claim that the memory chip company violated antitrust laws in patenting technologies that were eventually incorporated into industry standards.


New 167-processor chip is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 4

A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, ...


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Scientists Develop First Chip-Scale Thermoelectric Cooler

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the chip. ...


'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

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.


The Wall Street Journal said Apple has been hiring new employees from the semiconductor industry

Apple 'to design own computer chips'

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 6

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.


Rambus settles EU antitrust probe, avoids fines

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created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Memory chip company Rambus Inc. said Friday that European Union antitrust regulators had provisionally agreed to drop a probe and any fines if the company reduced its royalty rates for DRAM memory chip patents.


Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML  announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales

'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.


First 3-D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (78) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running ...


Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.


Building a Molecular Computer Chip

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 13, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

For Dr. Jerry Bernholc, a trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is like a suburbanite’s trek to Costco. Bulk consumption is the name of the game.



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