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UMC Announces Industry's First 28nm SRAMs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has manufactured the foundry industry's first fully functional 28nm SRAM chips. The chips are based on UMC's independently developed low-leakage (LL) process ...





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Peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'

Peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By producing some of the highest resolution images of peptides attaching to mineral surfaces, scientists have a deeper understanding how biomolecules manipulate the growth crystals. This research ...


New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry

New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale. These "nano-colorsorter" devices act as antennae to focus and sort light ...


Silicon Image Introduces New 18 MegaPixel Camera Processor IP Core

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Silicon Image today introduced the camerIC-18, the newest member of its family of camerIC camera processor IP cores.


ARM Announces 45nm SOI Test Chip Results That Demonstrate 40 Percent Power Savings Over Bulk Process

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing ...


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Cooperative design shaves chip-making costs -- a boost for Europe's bottom line

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European-sponsored programme that gives universities inexpensive access to state-of-the-art microchip design tools and fabrication techniques, and helps even small businesses fabricate novel ...


Taiwan's chip makers, powerful drivers of growth on the island, still face risky times.

Taiwan's chip makers still face dangers: analysts

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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.


Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance

Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

In a development that holds much promise for the future of solar cells made from nanocrystals, and the use of solar energy to produce clean and renewable liquid transportation fuels, researchers with the U.S. ...


TSMC Achieves 28nm SRAM Yield Breakthrough

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has become the first foundry not only to achieve 28nm functional 64Mb SRAM yield, but also to achieve it across all three 28nm nodes.


Metal composition hold key to identity of modern sculptures

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do you tell when, where and how a Picasso or a Matisse sculpture was cast? Could bronze sculptures have their very own DNA?


More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals

More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering ...



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