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1. MIT develops hybrid chip

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 17 September 2009

   ... said: "It's very difficult to make them a lot smaller." One answer is to use new advanced materials for the transistors. "There are several semiconductor materials that offer better performance than ...

2. Quantum computing hurdle overcome

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 24 June 2009

   ... Rather than representing a 0 or a 1 as a transistor does in a classical computer, a quantum bit can be a linear combination of 0 and 1," said Duncan Steel, a professor in the University of Michigan's Department ...

3. Stretchable displays coming to a garment near you soon

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 18 May 2009

   ... diodes (OLEDs) and organic transistors with a new flexible conductor. The display can then be attached to a curved surface without affecting performance and can even be folded in half or screwed up without ...

4. Effective notebook cooling: Near-field radiation therapy

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 15 April 2009

   ... by exploiting the high level of electron scattering that occurs in non-suspended carbon nanotube transistors. A wave called a surface polariton is caused by this electron scattering, according to the ...

5. Dr. Craig Barrett leaving Intel after 35 years, retiring in May

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 23 January 2009

   ... legends" like Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. Barrett has seen Intel's microprocessors move from the 4004 (with its hand-created 29,000 transistors), to 8008, to 8080, to 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, ...

6. Scientists create transparent memory chip

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 11 December 2008

   ... computer chip we know of. Research in transparent electronic devices have been an ongoing topic for at least a decade, but actual results have been limited to individual components like transistors so ...

7. Next up for Intel’s 32 nm chips: Prepare for production

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 09 December 2008

   ... (IEDM), which will open its doors on December 15 in San Francisco. The presentation will include an updated 291 Mb 32 nm SRAM chip with more than 1.9 billion transistors and a 3.8 GHz clock speed. Intel ...

8. New research suggests Moore's Law will not cease around 2020

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 09 December 2008

   ... there are many researchers looking for alternate solutions to push beyond. The quantum and heat effects observed at such small feature sizes begin to impede transistor function because there are very ...

9. Nano-magnetic sensors could pave the way for massive data storage capacity

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 09 December 2008

   ... to be constantly moving. Today, semiconductors companies often utilize infrared emissions to detect electron movement through silicon-based transistors. TG Daily had the opportunity to visit Intel's ...

10. Panasonic and Renesas jointly develop 32 nm SOCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 08 October 2008

    ... 32-nm node transistor technology and other advances can “soon” be applied to products in mass production. While Panasonic and Renesas said that it is always difficult to introduce new materials at a production ...

11. BCP lithography, self-assembling nanotechnology to build IC circuits from the bottom up

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 26 September 2008

    ... fundamental concept observable over the years is something now called Moore's Law. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors which can be inexpensively placed and mass produced on an integrated ...

12. Intel imagines wireless power for your laptop

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 21 August 2008

    ... more realistic, at least for the 10 or 15 years ahead of us, is Intel’s note that Moore’s Law, which predicts a doubling of the transistor count on an integrated circuit every 18-24 months, is alive and ...

13. Graphene could replace silicon one day, scientists say

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 24 March 2008

    ... graphene, indicating how much work is actually left to reach the 200,000 cm2/Vs limit. Fuhrer believes that the potential of graphene makes it a promising material for applications in which transistors ...

14. Carbon one step closer to becoming viable alternative for silicon

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 December 2007

    Scientists have discovered a way to use graphene as a transistor substrate, instead of silicon.  The potential includes 10x faster processing. Princeton (NJ) - Researchers at Princeton University ...

15. Fujitsu advances ReRAM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 14 December 2007

    ... to nickel oxide, and by limiting the current flow from the transistor design, erase memory power requirements of 100 microamps or less are possible in 5 nanoseconds.  In additions, fluctuations which ...

16. Six fold reduction in semiconductor power loss, a faster, lower heat process technology

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 03 December 2007

    ... familiar with, using 65nm, 45nm, etc.  Tiny copper lines are created which connect all of the on-die circuits necessary for carrying out work.  Transistors are the fundamental workhorses ...

17. Red light ... green light ... 5 millivolts

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 02 December 2007

    ... factors over time, the LVP was able to determine the exact voltage, even through 100s of nm of silicon substrate.  They could literally read the voltage on a bitline, the state of a transistor, watch ...

18. Carbon nanotubes prove electrically flexible on 89% transparent substrate

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 07 November 2007

    ... ever further, research efforts are currently under way to create p-type and n-type junctions from materials that can be deposited on the surface.  These would create flexible surface transistors.  ...

19. Tech Tour Intel: Gainestown spotted in the microsurgery silicon debug lab

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... can look right through the silicon and see the physical transistors.  And, following the laws of physics, when gates flip from one setting to another, photons are emitted.  These photons can ...

20. Scientists grow nanowires reliably enough to create circuits

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 29 October 2007

    ... In the laboratory researchers have developed a 600-circuit transistor assembly similar to those used in digital memory chips.  There have been some initial observations which indicate this process ...

21. Understanding high-k dielectrics easier, thanks to new model

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 17 October 2007

    ... a necessary electrical barrier which allows transistors to function, but as features get smaller that barrier is becoming less and less efficient.  Alternate materials are needed because at the current ...

22. Nobel Prize for Physics awarded for hard drive technology

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 09 October 2007

    ... true significance of GMR has yet to be realized in practical applications.  Concepts like spin-selective transistors could provide real, practical avenues in optical and quantum computers.  These ...

23. New material breakthrough brings quantum computers one step closer

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 08 October 2007

    ... in semiconductors, but for productive results.  For example, at smaller and smaller levels, the magnetic spin of electrons could be used to store information in place of transistors.  But, how ...

24. Carbon nanotubes prove excellent heat transfer vehicles for silicon

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 02 October 2007

    ... toward achieving better performance through higher clock speeds.  Transistors, the base components operating at the very heart of a CPU, can only switch on and off so fast within a given ...

25. Spin doctors observe atomic rotation

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 13 September 2007

    ... a series of wires, cells and transistors.  Each of them conveys an electric charge, holds an electric charge,  or allows an electric charge to pass through either right or left. Spintronic ...

26. Scientists draw semiconductor circuits with super-fine ink-jet printers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 07 September 2007

    ... that traditional transistors (with both source and drain electrodes) printed on plastic substrates work.  They not only functioned properly, but they had similar characteristics to products built ...

27. Scientists develop heat transistor that someday could cool chips

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 06 July 2007

    ... for the foreseeable future. But what if we had the ability to channel heat wherever we wanted it to go via electrically controlled transistors? Chicago (IL) - The cooling needs of tomorrow's semiconductors, ...

28. Transparent transistors pave way to future displays, scientists say

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 26 June 2007

    Researchers at Purdue University have created transparent transistors and circuits that could be integrated in future displays, such as head-up displays in windshields as well as e-paper that would be ...

29. TG Daily interview: AMD imagines 16 graphics cores for CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 May 2007

    ... to introduce a $399 price point [for a high-end card] with a brand new technology. This is a 700-million transistor chip, so as we debugged it, with the cache structures, DX10, the new architecture and ...

30. Nano-piezotronics to enable new “body electronics”

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 01 March 2007

    ... properties have been used for field-effect transistors, diodes,  sensors as well as nanogenerators that can produce controllable current by bending and releasing zinc oxide nanowires and nanobelts. ...

31. Intel preps five 45 nm dual- and quad-core processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 26 January 2007

    Intel shows off its tech horsepower, revealing more details about its upcoming 45 nm CPU generation: Penryn, a processor core that will replace the current 65 nm Core 2 processors, uses a new transistor ...

32. STI accelerates Cell CPU to 6 GHz, Intel bumps 80-core chip to 4 GHz

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 04 January 2007

    ... According to Intel, the 80-core, 100-million-transistor-die is rated at power consumption of just 98 watts (at 1 TFlops).  ...

33. The response to Core 2 Duo: What does AMD do next?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 July 2006

    ... subnodes that enhances the transistor design, or changes certain things in the process technology, or maybe introduces new material, before they go to 65 nm. They're continuously upgrading it. "So going ...

34. Intel considers 3D transistors for 32 nm processors

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 12 June 2006

    Intel is going to great lengths to get a better handle on the power consumption of its semiconductors. On step closer to reality is the "tri-gate" transistor, which enables the company to gain more flexibility ...

35. IBM builds nanotube chip

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 24 March 2006

    ... main ingredient for making chips. Long thought to be a good candidate for replacing silicon, carbon nanotube has posed great challenges for scientists who try to coax transistors out of the material and ...

36. IBM drives chipmaking process beyond current limitations

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 21 February 2006

    ... Gordon Moore that transistor counts in microchips double every 18 to 24 months appears to be increasingly difficult to achieve. Every new product generation requires companies to dedicate more human and ...

37. Nantero to roll out Carbon Nanotube memory in 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 03 February 2006

    ... Motorola is working on CNT-based fuel cells and virtually any semiconductor firm, including Infineon and Intel, develops the technology for future transistor manufacturing. Nantero, however, is the first ...

38. Intel first to demonstrate 45 nm silicon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 January 2006

    ... nm SRAM chips have a capacity of 153 Mbit and carry more than 1 billion transistors on a die with a size of 110 sqmm. The memory cell size is 0.346 μm2, which is almost half the size of a 65 nm cell, ...

39. AMD licenses Z-RAM technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 24 January 2006

    ... fabrication processes that include 130nm SOI, 90nm SOI, and FinFET technologies. Working silicon in 65 nm is expected to arrive later in Q1, ISi said. The firm's Z-RAM is based on a single transistor technology ...

40. Intel's 65 nm yields already at 90 nm level

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 16 December 2005

    ... (TD) is responsible for finding errors and getting them fixed. If a problem is reported, there are engineers who often will have to find that one individual transistor that is causing the problem, describing ...

41. New transistor material could help extend Moore's Law

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 07 December 2005

    ... in collaboration with researchers from QinetiQ a low power transistor prototype that uses indium antimonide (InSb) to conduct electrical current. The firms believe that InSb can to complement silicon one ...

42. 65 nm transition to save Intel $2 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 01 December 2005

    ... Smaller structures allow the company to squeeze more processors onto one wafer, decrease material cost per unit and increase volume at the same time. "Back in 1968, the cost of one transistor was $5.50; ...

43. 100 GByte storage for your cell phone?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 13 September 2005

      British nanotechnologists have emulated the functions usually associated with transistor-based digital electronics in all-metallic nanoscale devices made from ferromagnetic materials. British ...

44. New material structure produces world's fastest transistor

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 11 April 2005

      A new type of transistor structure, invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has broken the 600 gigahertz speed barrier. A new type of transistor structure, invented ...

45. Intel prepares for next 20 years of chip making

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 25 October 2004

      Intel pulled back the curtain Friday on some of its future research projects to continue making transistors smaller, faster and less power-hungry out as far as 2020. Intel pulled back the curtain ...

46. Plastic memory technology unveiled

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 13 November 2003

    ... digital cameras, cellphones and portable music players. "The magical ingredient isn't smaller transistors or an exotic material cooked up by the semiconductor industry." Read the entire story.  ...

47. Intel Replaces Silicon in Chip Breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 06 November 2003

      Intel says it has made a major breakthrough in chip technology with the development of a new material that replaces silicon in the manufacturing of transistors. Intel says it has made a major ...

48. Intel to bring out the metal at 45 nanometers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 05 November 2003

      Intel Corp. Intel Corp. will change two materials used in the manufacturing of its chips in order to improve performance and reduce power leakage as its transistors shrink over the next four or ...

49. AMD explores triple-gate transistors

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 18 September 2003

      Advanced Micro Devices unveiled an experimental transistor with three gates on Thursday, in a continued effort to find ways to increase performance while conserving electricity. Advanced Micro ...

50. I.B.M. Announces Screaming Fast Switch

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 05 November 2002

      International Business Machines announced Monday that it has built the world's fastest transistor, or electronic switch. International Business Machines announced Monday that it has built the ...