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1. IBM semi alliance loving 28 nm technology

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 16 April 2009

   ... bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology. The target? Mobile Internet devices with optimized battery life. Los Angeles (CA) - IBM and its posse of semiconductor manufacturers, ...

2. Chip drops Boolean logic, runs seven times faster

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 09 February 2009

   ... to recharge their phones not every few days, but every few weeks, the scientists said.The new processor shown discussed at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), uses common CMOS technology, ...

3. IBM tips 32nm with high-k gate-first design

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 10 December 2007

   ... this process on CMOS, containing a 0.15 um2 cell size (picture on left).  They have also completed a similar SOI implementation which will be suitable for mass production of future multi-core processors. ...

4. Green power supplies could dwarf all other power saving efforts

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 06 November 2007

   ... their full levels of greenness.  A company called Marvell, a member of Climate Savers, has brought forth a new chip which addresses that power gap. Inverter technology Marvell has produced CMOS-based ...

5. UMC develops 192 GHz circuit, sets sight on THz chips

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 21 February 2006

   ... "a THz signal in CMOS technology is not far off," said Patrick T. Lin, chief SoC architect of system and architecture support at UMC.  ...

6. A teardown of iRiver's H10 5 GByte MP3 player

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 29 November 2005

   ... for 8 Mbit X 16 / 16 MByte. It is SST's CMOS Multi-Purpose Flash (MPF) manufactured with SST's proprietary high performance CMOS SuperFlash technology. The device uses a split-gate cell design and a thick ...

7. S3 Launches Silicon-Proven 400MSPS 10 bit DAC

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Monday, 06 October 2003

   ... PC and Professional video and imaging markets. This compact, leading-edge DAC is silicon-proven on a standard 0.18um CMOS logic process and has already been characterized in target applications. The DAC ...

8. STM's New ADSL Line Driver Chip

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Tuesday, 22 January 2002

   ... a two-channel version of the same circuit. The STLC60133N is designed for the STM's proprietary BCD5 submicron bipolar-CMOS-DMOS mixed technology, which is said to allow DC current down to 3.5mA for each ...

9. Fujitsu's Graphics Controllers for Vehicle Navigation

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Tuesday, 11 December 2001

   ... 0.25 micron CMOS process. Each has an I/O voltage of 3.3V and an internal voltage of 2.5V. A set of evaluation boards is also available now. The MB86290A Cremson version comes in a 240-pin QFP; the MB86291 ...

10. Intel's New Chip Transistor Design

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 27 November 2001

    ... be able to switch on and off more than one trillion times per second. One element of the new structure is a "depleted substrate transistor," which is a new type of CMOS device where the transistor is built ...

11. SiGe Power Amplifier for CDMA

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Sunday, 21 October 2001

    ... designers vary the IC's power setting as the phone moves around the CDMA network. The new module incorporates a CMOS-compatible logic interface as well as an internally matched input and output (50 ohm ...

12. TI and OmniVision Pull Together 1394 CMOS Camera Design

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 21 August 2001

      Hmm, are you a USB 2.0 fan or are you hoping that FireWire is the wave of the future? Personally, I think that forthcoming motherboards should offer support for both. National Semiconductor jus ...

13. Tech tips from RadioShack?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 06 August 2001

      We can talk all day about SDRAM vs. On Friday, Texas Instruments announced a new series of CMOS operational amplifiers, featuring 200-MHz gain-bandwidth and 360-V/us slew rate. TI expects the ...

14. Rambus Optimistic About RDRAM

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 13 June 2001

    ... HiPerMOS7 (HiP7) 0.13 um CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) processor platform, but keeps the core area down to 6 square millimeters and power down to 3mW/MHz. Motorola expects the e500 core ...

15. Computex: Acer's P4 DDR

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 06 June 2001

    ... RISC processor core and Flash ROM. Both are manufactured in 0.25 micron CMOS. The products are a result of National's February acquisition of innoCOMM. National will demonstrate the chipset and other Bluetooth ...

16. World's smallest, lowest power color VGA screen debuts

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 17 May 1999

    ... the CyberDisplay 640C to be operated at low video voltage levels compatible with conventional low-voltage CMOS circuits. The CyberDisplay 640C displays information at 640-by-480, full-color pixel resolution. ...

17. Hyundai speeds memory interface

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Sunday, 09 May 1999

      Hyundai Electronics America has started mass production of phase-locked-loop clock drivers and Advanced Low-Voltage CMOS memory registers for PC-133/100 registered Dual In-line Memory Modules.These ...