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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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing a 128-gigabit (Gb), 3-bit multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND memory chip using sub-20 nanometer (nm)-class process technology. The flash chip will be used to create Samsung's ...
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Taiwan National Tsing Hua University has been studying ways to improve the modulation performance of high-output-power nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
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Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of South Korea have developed a zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod (NR) process for improving light extraction from gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by up to ...
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GlobalFoundries has showcased a new technology that allows 3D stacking of chips for use in mobile and consumer applications. The company uses the 20nm-LPM process technology to manufacture its first functional 20nm silicon wafers with ...
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More than a quarter of the world's wafer capacity is for processes better than 40nm, says IC Insights. At the end of 2012, about 27% of global wafer capacity was for devices having geometries smaller than 40nm. Such devices include ...
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Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku believes Moore's Law has about 10 years of life left before ever-shrinking transistor sizes smack up against limitations imposed by the laws of thermodynamics and quantum physics. That day of reckoning ...
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Globalfoundries claims a breakthrough in 3D stacking of chips with the demonstration of functional 20nm silicon wafers with integrated through-silicon vias. The technique allows chips to be stacked on top of each other with circuit ...
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MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and Sidense Corp., a developer of logic non-volatile memory one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores today ...
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The Rolls-Royce Wraith, the British marque’s most powerful car ever, has been revealed before its world premiere at today’s Geneva motor show. Combining a sleek fastback silhouette and a 465kW/800Nm twin-turbocharged 6.6-litre ...
Altera has joined Tabula and Achronix as an FPGA foundry customer of Intel. According to Altera, Intel has agreed that Altera will be the only 'major' FPGA customer of Intel which rules out Lattice and Xilinx becoming Intel foundry ...
ARM and Synopsys say they have taped out the first ARM Mali-T658 design using a 20nm process technology, ARM Artisan physical IP and shader functionality. The resulting RTL-through-sign-off design flow includes double-patterning ...
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Researchers based in South Korea and France have developed gallium nitride (GaN) fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) with the lowest claimed subthreshold swing for nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs (MISFETs) ...
Micron Technology today introduced the industry's densest 128Gbit NAND flash memory device utilizing its 20-nanometer (nm) process technology and packing three bits of data per cell into the chip. Three-bit flash technology is referred to ...
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Micron Technology has introduced its smallest 128Gbit NAND flash memory fabbed on a 20nm process. The memory device uses a triple-level-cell (TLC) design which stores three bits of information per cell. This means the device is ...