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IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
Apr 12, 2007 |
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IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore’s Law beyond its expected limits. The technology ...
Silent, microchip-sized 'fan' has no moving parts, yet produces enough wind to cool a laptop
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Engineers harnessing the same physical property that drives silent household air purifiers have created a miniaturized device that is now ready for testing as a silent, ultra-thin, low-power and low maintenance ...
Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip
May 13, 2008 |
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Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 ...
Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing
Jun 27, 2008 |
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The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.
IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype
Feb 28, 2008 |
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IBM researchers today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to all kinds ...
IBM Reveals Breakthrough eDRAM Memory Technology
Feb 14, 2007 |
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In papers presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, IBM revealed a first-of-its-kind, on-chip memory technology that features the fastest access times ever recorded in eDRAM (Embedded ...
Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells
Jun 29, 2008 |
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a reco ...
IBM researchers demonstrate world's fastest optical chipset
Mar 26, 2007 |
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At the 2007 Optical Fiber Conference, IBM scientists will reveal a prototype optical transceiver chipset capable of reaching speeds at least eight times faster than optical components available today.
Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors
Jun 25, 2008 |
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German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.
Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity
Nov 06, 2007 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device.
Dell Talking About 80-Core Chip Processor
Nov 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This week Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) gave a slide presentation that included Intel´s recently developed 80-core processor. This isn't the first time that the 80-core chip was mentioned in ...
Slicing solar power costs: New method cuts waste in making most efficient solar cells
Sep 15, 2008 |
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University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost ...
IBM Alliances Announce Advancement in High-K/Metal Gate Technology
Dec 14, 2007 |
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IBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- announced an innovative approach to speed the implementation of a breakthrough material ...
Glass fibers instead of copper cables
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Semiconductor technology is expensive. Novel optical microchips made of plastic are set to bring down the price of fiber-optic technology in future. Personal fiber-optic connections for private individuals ...
New record for world's fastest transistor set
Aug 16, 2006 |
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Engineers in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (University of Southampton, UK) have developed a method to make bipolar transistors twice as fast as current devices.
