IDG News Service - Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from cloud services or data-intensive applications like analytics, all while cutting electricity bills in ...
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IDG News Service - Following Intel's lead, contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), is investing A!838 million (US$1 billion) in Netherlands tools maker ASML to speed up the development of faster and more ...
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In a paper set to be published this week in the scientific journal Nature, IBM researchers are claiming a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use of memory and storage ...
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An international research team has been exploring the role of gate oxide border traps in devices being developed for future electronics.The researchers presented their results at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting[D.Lin et ...
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Purdue and Harvard universities have produced stacked nanowire (NW) transistors with increased drive current and maximum transconductance. The results were presented on Wednesday 12 December at the International Electron Devices Meeting ...
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Chris Berry, founder of Mountain Partners asset management company, provided an interesting summary of the graphite space while speaking at the recent Graphite Express Conference in Vancouver. The conference featured a keynote address ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany have successfully tested power transistors made of gallium nitride (GaN) in power electronic systems. By using such transistors the researchers says ...
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IBM and Oracle shared more details this week about new RISC chips they're building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain more ...
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In the ongoing race to build ever better flat-screen displays, a potentially disruptive technology has made a small debut at IFA, the consumer electronics show currently taking place in Berlin. In a corner of the booth of Japan's Sharp ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on wafers ...
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IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain ...
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IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications. Silicon ...
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LED manufacturers invested heavily in production equipment in 2010–2011, driven primarily by demand for backlighting for flat panel displays in TVs and computers. Although this driver has moderated and there is currently an oversupply ...
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