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Scientists investigate water power for mobiles
News The process creates an Electric Double Layer (EDL) -- a thin liquid layer with a net charge that ranges from several nanometres to a few micrometres thick. Canadian scientists have developed a method of generating electricity from water for use in...
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
Intel forms nanotech alliance to improve memory
News Nanosys specialises in licensing intellectual property in the nanotechnology field, which involves the art of building products out of components measuring less than 100 nanometres long. Intel has entered into a limited technology alliance with...
[January 15, 2004, 13:05]
IBM labs unveil nanotech storage 'punch card'
News Like punch cards in the computers of old, the pattern of the indentations -- measuring 10 nanometres each -- essentially is the digitised version of the data meant to be stored. Millipede is also part of IBM's efforts to promote nanotechnology, the...
[June 11, 2002, 8:44]
Flat screens exploit electron emission technology
News The two plates are positioned just a few nanometres apart, with a vacuum between them. Canon and Toshiba have formed a joint venture to develop, produce and sell surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) flat screens
[September 14, 2004, 16:20]
Spinning electrons will speed up chips
News It's like the signals generated in an NMR brain scan," Dr Alain Nogaret of the University of Bath told ZDNet UK, "but created by a device that can be under 100 nanometres big and integrated with the rest of a silicon circuit.
[June 23, 2006, 10:40]
Fujitsu turbocharges server chip
News Fujitsu builds the faster Sparc64 V with a manufacturing process that permits features with a size of 90 nanometres, meaning that more circuitry can be squeezed onto a chip built with the earlier 130-nanometre process.
[June 22, 2004, 9:00]
IBM tech pushes storage limits
News Scientists still have to figure out how to get the optimal thickness for the film, as well as the best way to read information recorded on dots just four billionths of a metre (four nanometres) wide. IBM researchers say they have developed a new...
[March 17, 2000, 14:46]
Nanosys sets IPO price
News Technically, nanotechnology refers to the science of making products with components that measure less than 100 nanometres (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre). Nanosys, one of the bellwethers of nanotechnology, is likely to price its shares...
[July 16, 2004, 11:25]
Chip slaps cuffs on pox bug
News The cantilever is four microns long and 30 nanometres thick, and the virus detected - vaccina, a relative of cowpox - weighed about nine femtograms. American researchers have demonstrated a chip capable of detecting and potentially analysing a...
[February 16, 2004, 15:40]
AMD grants win EU approval
News AMD is currently producing 130-nanometre chips and hopes to move to 90 nanometres this year, roughly the same time as other chip leaders. The European Union has approved grants by the German and Saxon governments for Advanced Micro Devices' second...
[February 6, 2004, 15:30]
Nanowires!
Blog This isn't fast - only around 50 nanometres a minute - but you can do billions at a time. Just in the lunch break (yes! Fed at last! at the IBM Zurich labs show-and-tell day, which as usual is full of sessions that overrun and no time to do...
[June 24, 2008, 12:41]
IDF: New memory technologies on the way
News Currently, ETOX is available at 0.13 micrometres -- like the rest of Intel's products, a move to 90 nanometres (nm) is planned, with a limit of 65nm envisaged. It may grab fewer headlines than processor design or RAM, but non-volatile memory has...
[February 27, 2002, 9:51]
Nanotechnology takes up golfing challenge
News As with other nano products, the features of NanoDynamic's golf ball derive from the unusual properties found in designer molecules or components measuring less than 100 nanometres. Scientists are trying to use nanotechnology to cure diseases...
[November 22, 2004, 8:15]
TI to upgrade UltraSparc manufacturing
News In addition, the new processors are built with features as small as 120 nanometres, a notch smaller than the 150-nanometre process used for Sun's current 900MHz chips, meaning that yet more processors will fit on the wafer.
[July 18, 2002, 8:24]
MIT makes quantum leap in display technology
News Previous QD-OLEDs had layers of 10 to 20 quantum dots; the single-dot layer is just three nanometres across. Supremely efficient ultra-thin notebook and video displays may be the result of new quantum discoveries announced by MIT.
[January 13, 2003, 15:57]
Semi equipment makers merge in $1.6bn deal
News Dunn told the conference call the two companies would continue producing their current 193 nanometre wavelength models, but would combine forces as the technology sharpened to 157 nanometres and beyond.
[October 2, 2000, 12:58]
Molecules draw straight line
News The lines drawn were 24 nanometres long, which is far smaller than transistors manufactured today. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have come up with a way to organise molecules through lithography, which is the science of "drawing" chip...
[July 24, 2003, 7:54]
TI to outsource chip production
News Sun's UltraSparc III processors, the fastest of which run at 1.05GHz, are built on a manufacturing process that has a feature size of 150 nanometres. Texas Instruments has announced plans to outsource the manufacturing of many of the chips made in...
[May 20, 2002, 11:10]
AMD revives Duron for budget push
News The 90-nanometre process enables chipmakers to produce chips with an average feature size of 90 nanometres. Advanced Micro Devices has brought its Duron chip back from the dead and will probably extend the life of its Athlon XP chip, in an attempt...
[August 27, 2003, 10:05]
AMD and Intel battle for next-gen servers
News Current Xeons are built using a process with circuitry elements measuring 65 nanometres; a nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Intel and AMD, already fighting over today's customers, held simultaneous meetings on Wednesday to try to turn attention...
[March 1, 2007, 8:23]
