Integrated circuit
hideIn electronics, an integrated circuit (also known as IC, microcircuit, microchip, silicon chip, or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material. Integrated circuits are used in almost all electronic equipment in use today and have revolutionized the world of electronics.
A hybrid integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit constructed of individual semiconductor devices, as well as passive components, bonded to a substrate or circuit board.
This article is about monolithic integrated circuits.
For more information about Integrated circuit, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
News tagged with computer chips
Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics
Nov 26, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (10) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...
Selling chip makers on optical computing
Nov 24, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (11) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...
New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips
Nov 10, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (14) |
3
(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 ...
Search results for computer chips
FTC expands Intel anti-competition probe, sources say
6 hours ago |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
The Federal Trade Commission has broadened its investigation of Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker Intel beyond the company's competition with Advanced Micro Devices to include at least one other Silicon Valley company, Nvidia, ...
Gift Guide: Touch and Windows 7 in fresh PC lineup
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 03, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- This holiday season is a great time to buy a PC. There's a nice new version of Windows out, and computer manufacturers are adding interesting new technologies. Here's a guide to what's fresh in PCs, ...
Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)
Dec 03, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (16) |
12
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...
NREL Breaks Down Walls for Biofuels
Nov 30, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and ethanol producers are racing to come up with ways to make ethanol from cellulosic biomass that are cheaper and easier to ...
Glasgow scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design
Nov 29, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create ...
Rare economic espionage case ends in jury deadlock
Nov 24, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Two men accused of the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. have been acquitted on two counts, but they could face a retrial on three other counts on which a jury deadlocked.
Intelligence inside metal components
Nov 24, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
3
Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers ...
HP profit jumps on cost cuts, new market expansion
Nov 23, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.
Intel wants a chip implant in your brain
Nov 23, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (34) |
49
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.
UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing
Nov 20, 2009 |
5 / 5 (8) |
0
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published ...
List of search results for computer chips
