ABB of Zurich, Switzerland, which focuses on electric power engineering and industrial automation, has granted 5m Swiss Francs to the ETH Zurich Foundation to support the development of high-performance power semiconductors, with the aim of ...
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Despite skepticism in the chip industry that Moore’s Law could be reaching its limits, MIT Researchers believe that they have found a way to enable semiconductor manufacturers to continue shrinking geometries below 20 nanometer and ...
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IBM is looking for alternatives to CMOS technology and Von Neumann architecture. Semiconductor packaging of integrated bipolar silicon is needed. In addition, 3D integration allows for strong I/O performance; 2.5D and improved materials are ...
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Bendable materials are changing how we think of and use substrates. R&D announcements are made nearly daily on new scientific research that will help enable flexible electronics (electronic products that are bendable or those that can be ...
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Researchers have found a new way to tune the radio frequency in smartphones and other wireless devices that promises to reduce costs and improve performance of semiconductors used in defense, satellite and commercial communications. ...
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested another US$15.50 million into future R&D of semiconductors and chips, according to a blog entry by Michael Cooney, Online News Editor for Network World. The funds will be ...
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According to the introduction from Liang Ma, a staff of Silan's Securities Department, Silan has sold high-end LED display chip to top international clients, Daktronics and Barco have already become its important large customers. Although ...
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China-based researchers have reported that country's first diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs) with RF characteristics [Feng ZhiHong et al, Science China Technological Sciences, vol56, p957, 2013]. The team was ...
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UMC will use IBM's support and knowledge to improve its internally developed 14nm FinFET Semiconductor company United Microelectronics (UMC) has joined IBM Technology Development Alliances to develop 10nm CMOS process technology. As ...
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Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2.2 percent year over year to $295 billion in 2012, according to the latest version of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF). The industry witnessed ...
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Semiconductor design for automotive systems is an important and growing technology capability for European companies, according to Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, European director at Mentor Graphics. "Europe's strong car industry is a big ...
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Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has sold a SIVA 21 research system to the Institute of Automation and Control Processes (IACP), part of ...
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada’s technology hub, has purchased a GEN10® Molecular Beam Epitaxy system for its recently opened Quantum-Nano Centre ...
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...