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IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger |
Flurry of Floating-Body Memory Research, but Still No Products Intel and Toshiba show off their competitors to Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Samuel K. Moore |
Z-RAM to Take on DRAM with Hynix Deal The Swiss memory company Innovative Silicon says it has struck a deal to license its technology to the No. 2 maker of standalone DRAM memory chips, Hynix Semiconductor, based in Inchon, South Korea. The technology, called Z-RAM could double the density of Hynix's memory chips. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Neil Savage |
Hynix Makes No-Capacitor DRAM Z-RAM memory design might find a spot in the competitive DRAM market |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al. |
The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Ahmed & Schuegraf |
Transistor Wars Rival architectures face off in a bid to keep Moore's Law alive. In May, Intel announced the most dramatic change to the architecture of the transistor since the device was invented. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland |
3-D Chips Grow Up In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law - and move beyond it. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Miguel Miranda |
The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows |
InternetNews December 7, 2004 Michael Singer |
IBM Perks Up Memory, Transistors The company shrinks its SRAM and adds a dash of germanium fuel to its chips. |
PC World March 12, 2002 James Niccolai |
Intel Shrinks Chip, Hits Milestone Prototypes of high-density chips support nearly eight times as many transistors as today's Pentium 4... |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Sally Adee |
The Fastest, the Smallest, and the Strangest at IEDM This year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, as usual, is largely a race to the bottom |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee |
Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Brian R. Santo |
Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Singh & Thakur |
Chip Making's Singular Future Beleaguered chip makers are counting on single-wafer manufacturing, which makes ICs on one wafer at a time, to cut costs and get chips to market faster. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sarah Adee |
Winner: The Ultimate Dielectric Is...Nothing IBM packs wires in vacuum to speed chips and save power. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Bill Arnold |
Shrinking Possibilities Lithography will need multiple strategies to keep up with the evolution of memory and logic |
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Keane & Kim |
Transistor Aging Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye |
Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Guizzo & Santo |
The Runners-up: More Earthshaking Chips These 13 great little chips didn't make our list -- mainly because we ran out of space in print. And, well, one isn't even a chip |
InternetNews August 30, 2004 Michael Singer |
Intel Evolves Chipmaking Technology The company reaches a tipping point with its 90-nanometer chips, as it works to slim down to 65nm next year. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Joshua J Romero |
Japanese Engineers Turn High-k Dielectric Transistor Problem on Its Head One gate metal and two high-k dielectrics could mean a cheaper and easier 45-nanometer CMOS manufacturing process for transistors. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Guizzo & Goldstein |
Expressway To Your Skull PlayStation 3's ability to blast data between chips is one of the secrets to a mind-bending gaming experience. Sony has a lot staked on the success of the PS3 -- hundreds of millions of dollars, and maybe its future as the preeminent maker of consumer electronics. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland |
Start-up Seeks New Life for Planar Transistors SuVolta is pursuing precision doping in its bid to compete with 3-D transistor technology |
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Michael Singer |
Big Blue Tweaks Chip Contender IBM's new 970FX combines three different technologies for its next generation PowerPC. Apple is cheering. Intel and AMD had better watch out. |
InternetNews December 13, 2004 Michael Singer |
Chipmakers Advance Transistor Technology IBM and AMD have devised a new silicon transistor technology they claim will boost the speeds of single- and dual-core chips. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Hafnium Oxide Helps Make Chips Smaller and Faster Intel and IBM have announced that they will use dramatically different materials to build smaller, faster transistors for their next generation of chips. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Yu-Tzu Chiu |
Flash Memory Survives 100 Million Cycles A little heat lets flash beat typical 10 000-cycle limit |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz |
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Rachel Courtland |
Six Paths to Longer Battery Life These six technologies could save on smartphone power |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Brian R. Santo |
25 Microchips That Shook the World A list of some of the most innovative, intriguing, and inspiring integrated circuits |
InternetNews February 14, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
IBM Reports Cache Memory Breakthrough IBM this week announced a breakthrough in microprocessor design that will greatly improve the performance of processors, particularly multicore processors. |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 Rich Duprey |
Profiting From Moore's Law Intel develops a new chip that roughly doubles the number of transistors on a chip. Whether it's in the chip makers themselves, or in the picks and shovels of the industry, investors stand to make big profits from tiny chips. |
PC Magazine November 28, 2007 Domingo & Cheng |
CPU Road Map 2008: Maxing Out Moore's Law 2007's big stories were Intel's move from dual-core to multicore processors and AMD's move to 65 nm. We look ahead to see what's next for the dueling chip manufacturers. |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
IBM and Intel Install a New Gatekeeper Changes to transistor components will keep Moore's Law running smoothly. Which companies stand to come out on top? Investors, take note. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Samuel K. Moore |
Intel 45-Nanometer Penryn Processors Arrive Penryn chips are the result of the first fundamental redesign of the CMOS transistor |
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 |
The Father of Flash When Fujio Masuoka invented the flash-memory chip at Toshiba in the '80s, he launched the Digital Era. |
InternetNews August 3, 2004 Michael Singer |
IBM's New Semiconductor Technique The company develops a processor that can regulate and adapt its own actions in response to changing conditions and system demands. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa |
Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials |
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Winner: Multimedia Monster Cell's nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip. Cell, which is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, is a US $400 million joint effort of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Liu et al. |
MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips |
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Adam Aston |
The Coming Chip Revolution Facing the limits of silicon, scientists are turning to carbon nanotubes. But even with a reliable supply of tubes, scaling up production to supply a vast global industry will take years. |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
Silicon nanocrystal transistor shines A nanocrystal field-effect light-emitting device (FELED) could be used to integrate light sources on computer chips. This would allow the light sources and control circuits of display and communications device to be fabricated together, making for a faster, cheaper manufacturing process. |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2010 Michael Kanellos |
Why Solar Is, and Isn't, Like the Chip Industry Will there be an Intel of solar? Or a lot of Packard-Bells? |
InternetNews January 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Intel Breakthrough Keeps Moore's Law on Track Intel dispenses with silicon for the first time in 40 years in its effort to make smaller, faster and less power-hungry chips. |
PC Magazine August 30, 2006 John C. Dvorak |
Inside Track v25n16 There needs to be something besides high-end games that can suck up all the power of Intel's dual-core chips. This desperation will only get worse when Intel rolls out the four-core chip. |
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Loyd Case |
Intel's Next-Generation Core2 Microprocessor Why Intel's new Penryn processor could be a major breakthrough for computing. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2006 Rich Duprey |
Chipping Away at Chip Industry Turmoil A sea change in semiconductor industry technology can create opportunities for some investors. |
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Michael Singer |
IBM, AMD Retain Chipmaking Ties IBM and AMD have extended their chipmaking contract through 2008 in an effort to make smaller and faster CPUs. |
PC World December 3, 2001 Martyn Williams |
AMD Announces Another Chip Advance Company's new transistor is five times smaller than current models, leading to faster and more complex chips... |
PC World September 12, 2002 James Niccolai |
Tomorrow's CPU: Wireless Link Inside Intel finds new ways to shrink, speed chips, plus build in radio functions. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Apte et al. |
Advanced Chip Packaging Satisfies Smartphone Needs Clever chip packaging means mobile devices can be smaller and smarter |