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S'pore forms group to boost 3D chips
News New consortium seeks to advance Singapore's 300mm wafer manufacturing capabilities by focusing on through-silicon via for 3D integrated circuit packages.
Tags: Processors, R&D, Integrated Circuit, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Chip, Singapore, 3D, consortium, transistor
IBM: Future of research lies in collaboration
News Rather than fly solo, technology companies will form alliances with other industry players to conduct research and development projects, says IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano.
Tags: R&D
Toshiba, NEC advance magnetic memory
News The two Japanese giants this week unveiled a paper that showed methods to cut down power consumption and size in cells of MRAM, a type of memory that may replace conventional computer memory (DRAM) and even flash memory.
Tags: Memory
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nanoscale transistors.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, NIST, Chip, Flaw, transistor, theory, researcher, scientist, IEEE
One step closer to age of nanowire transistors?
News IBM-Purdue researchers say nanowires may work in making PCs, consumer electronics because they form the same way every time.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Electronics, Manufacturing, Purdue University, Catalyst, Chip, Particle, Gordon Moore, Silicon
IBM shrinks SRAM cell for future chip generation
News The new static random access memory cell could be used in chips based on a 22nm manufacturing process, according to IBM.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, IBM Corp., SRAM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cell, Semiconductor, Chip, STMicroelectronics, San Francisco
IBM, NEC team up on 32nm chip tech
News NEC has signed a multi-year agreement to enroll in the joint-development alliance set up by IBM to work on next-generation 32-nanometer technology.
Tags: Processors, NEC Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, STMicroelectronics, performance, processor, transistor, power consumption, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Australian scientists push transistor barrier
News Researchers from the Center for Quantum Computing Technology, have built a wire only three atoms thick, opening the possibility of new chip architectures.
Tags: Nanotechnology, Processors, IBM Corp., Atom, Semiconductor, Computer, University of New South Wales, transistor, program manager, researcher
A new spin on battery technology
News Researchers have discovered a new form of battery that can be charged by applying a very strong magnetic field.
Tags: Components, Battery, Electronics, Device, Semiconductor, Storage, magnetic field, Miami, theory, Tokyo
LG, Sharp, Chunghwa admit to LCD price fixing
News Justice Department antitrust regulators hit the companies with fines adding up to US$585 million, in connection with a flat-panel price-fixing scheme.
Tags: Legal, Apple Inc., Price, Apple iMac, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sharp Corp., TFT-LCD Panel, antitrust, flat panel, Dell Computer Corp.
Intel shows off 45nm test chips
News Chipmaker says it is on track to deliver more powerful and efficient systems based on the new process design next year.
Tags: Processors
Can the Internet handle big breaking news?
News Reporters Tom Krazit and Declan McCullagh debate whether the tendency of Web sites to stagger under high demand can be avoided or isn't really something to worry about.
Tags: Domain names, Mobile platforms/communications, Web services, Web servers, Crisis communications, CNN, Google Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., micropayment, Crisis communications
Will "nothing" improve transistor?
News Breaking the No Free Lunch rule, Toshiba has announced improved transistor performance through the addition of empty space.
AMD joins transistor trend
News Like Intel and IBM, Advanced Micro Devices says it's working on multiple-gate transistors, in a bid to boost chip performance.
IBM makes first transistor change in 40 years
News Company uses new material to construct critical part of the transistor, which it says will lead to smaller, faster and more efficient chip circuitry.
Tags: Processors, Product development and design
