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IBM edges closer to practical quantum computing

...This is a picture of a silicon chip housing three qubits. According to IBM, the chip is back-mounted... Read more

28 February, 2012 by Staff
CIO survey: The effect of consumer-led IT

CIO survey: The effect of consumer-led IT

...seen one of the most profound revolutions since the invention of the silicon chip and the launch of the web. As a Fortune 1000 CIO... Read more

17 April, 2012

Molecules draw straight line

Researchers have made molecules organise themselves into straight lines, paving the way to create nanotech circuit boards Read more

24 July, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Rupert Goodwins' San Francisco IDF Diary

...I don't think I can gaze upon the face of another silicon chip without shuddering, ever again. Which is why I spend the morning... Read more

4 March, 2002
Introduction to Digital Cameras

Introduction to Digital Cameras

With a digital camera, images are taken by using light and a silicon chip. Photos are stored in the camera's memory and can be... Read more

19 April, 2010

MEMS the word

...to production. One of the most advanced areas is the use of silicon chip techniques to make combined mechanical and electronic devices where all components... Read more

12 April, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel showcases new technologies

...silicon-chip circuit patterns from research to the manufacturing stage. That next technology... Read more

22 June, 2009 by Stephen Shankland

Is this story a waste of ink?

...is really fast and really cheap." It is (and that's why silicon chip fab plants are really enormous, mutant, poisonous printing presses). But the... Read more

22 January, 2009

Euro spintronics gives a different shape to Moore's Law

...the 1960s, Henry Moore observed that it took around 18 months for silicon chip manufacturers to shrink their technology and fit twice as many transistors... Read more

7 July, 2008

It's not electronic, it's not a card and it's not Christmassy, but...

...beams of tiny particles, called gallium ions, onto the surface of the silicon chip. "By sending a particle beam towards various points on the substrate... Read more

21 December, 2007
Engineering a career at the PC's creation

Engineering a career at the PC's creation

Chuck Thacker, who helped design the Alto personal computer and co-invented Ethernet, takes stock of a life on the front lines of computer invention Read more

5 July, 2007 by Charles Cooper

RFID to stub out cigarette smuggling?

...other similar tech such as 'chipless' RFID - which doesn't use a silicon chip - could be a more realistic option in the long run. Harrop... Read more

23 March, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

Start-up shows off quantum computer

...today's electronic computers. D-Wave's computer is based around a silicon chip that houses 16 "qubits", the equivalent of a storage bit in... Read more

15 February, 2007 by Michael Kanellos

Intel's two-way punch knocks out 45nm chips

...materials: the bad news is that very few are compatible with existing silicon chip fabrication techniques. One of the rules of the game is that... Read more

30 January, 2007 by Rupert Goodwins
Chip pioneer caught up in Bluetooth patent case

Chip pioneer caught up in Bluetooth patent case

...has bought a licence from the Foundation. CSR developed the BlueCore — a silicon chip with an in-built Bluetooth radio transmitter. Previously, such a device... Read more

3 January, 2007 by Graeme Wearden

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