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Glasgow scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design

Technology / Semiconductors

Nov 29, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 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 ...

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Technology / Semiconductors

Nov 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (18) | 4

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...

Selling chip makers on optical computing

Technology / Semiconductors

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 ...

NXP Sets New Benchmarks for LED Drivers

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Nov 05, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

NXP Semiconductors today announced three major developments in its portfolio of mains connected LED driver solutions: the success of its SSL2101 LED driver IC in matching LED lifetimes in an accelerated lifetime test; the ...

Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

Oct 29, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (11) | 4

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.

STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up to Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment

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Oct 28, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM, announced today that ST has adopted the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, in addition to the Mali-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box ...

SEMATECH Reports New Approach to Simulate Transistor Noise

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Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program have developed a comprehensive transistor noise model capable of extracting defect characteristics from low frequency noise data in advanced gate stack transistors ...

ARM Introduces New Cortex-A5 Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

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Oct 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ARM today announces the launch of the ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the smallest, lowest power ARM multicore processor capable of delivering the Internet to the widest possible range of ...

Silicon Image Introduces New 18 MegaPixel Camera Processor IP Core

Technology / Semiconductors

Oct 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 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

Oct 08, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 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 ...

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

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Oct 06, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 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 ...

Filming photons, one million times a second

Technology / Semiconductors

Oct 05, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a CMOS (semiconductor) camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will impact on all the most advanced areas ...

Fujitsu Develops Millimeter-Wave Gallium-Nitride Transceiver Amplifier Chipset

Technology / Semiconductors

Sep 30, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 1

Fujitsu announced today the development of the world's first gallium-nitride HEMT-based transceiver amplifier chipset for broadband wireless transmission equipment operating in the millimeter bandwidth, the ...

Elpida Unveils Industry's First 2-Gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM

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Sep 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed the industry's first 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM.

Moore's Law Marches on at Intel

Technology / Semiconductors

Sep 22, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (30) | 10

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as ...

IMEC unveils promising mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell

Technology / Semiconductors

Sep 22, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell. This is the first promising demonstrator of IMEC’s novel technology ...

IMEC presents large area solar cells with 18.4% conversion efficiency, featuring Cu-plated contacts

Technology / Semiconductors

Sep 22, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a large-area solar with a conversion efficiency of 18.4%.

Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Technology / Semiconductors

Sep 18, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (11) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.