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...and compare types The transistor database includes data such as NPN/PNP, silicon/germanium, Ptot, Vcbo, Icmax, etc. Diagrams are provided for transistor housings, indicating... Read more

1 April, 2012

IBM gives silicon germanium chips a speed boost

...will announce the availability of its fourth generation of chips based on silicon germanium technology on Friday. The new semiconductors, named 8HP and 8WL, are... Read more

5 August, 2005 by Marguerite Reardon

IBM hits a chip milestone

...a milestone recently when it shipped its 100 millionth chip made with silicon germanium technology. Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and reduce... Read more

22 May, 2002 by John G.Spooner

Motorola: New chip will bring GPS to all

...contract with IBM to manufacture the new chip using Big Blue's silicon germanium chipmaking process. Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and... Read more

24 September, 2002 by John G.Spooner

Chip breaks speed record in deep freeze

...is part of a project to explore the ultimate speed limits of silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips. SiGe chips are similar to standard silicon chips, but... Read more

20 June, 2006 by Michael Kanellos
Enhancing tech inside Intel's photonics lab

Enhancing tech inside Intel's photonics lab

...are pioneering new ways to transfer data at super fast rates using silicon germanium photodetectors. Inside the labs, Intel is working to enhance the reliability... Read more

12 March, 2010 by James Martin

60 GHz networking, the story so far

...hoping to be snapped up by Intel), while IBM is working with silicon-germanium. There are other companies doing far whackier things. But even with... Read more

22 October, 2007

Intel Developer Forum - the show begins

It's Day 0 at the Intel Developer Forum, the traditional pre-show press briefing. I got in to San Francisco on Saturday... Read more

18 September, 2007

AMD starts shipping its 65nm chips

...is straining the silicon in the transistors inside its chips with a silicon germanium film to improve performance, a first for the company. Straining silicon... Read more

5 December, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

Intel's high-powered engineers create low-power chips

...under strain by making it sit next to layers of different material — silicon germanium or a silicon nitride — which have atoms arranged at a different... Read more

26 August, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

Start-up breeds better chips

...at lower temperatures, Knapp theorised. Materials employed for making electronic devices (gold, silicon, germanium) and magnetic (cobalt-platinum, iron-platinum) are amenable to these processes... Read more

5 August, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

New chipset promises gigabit broadband on cable and wireless

...of software or firmware upgrades." Built around specialist company Jazz Semiconductor's silicon-germanium (SiGe) 150GHz, 180nm process, the chip will be low power yet... Read more

11 May, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

IBM talks up power-saving chips

...Under its new process, IBM said it will be able to build Silicon Germanium bipolar chips on a special type of thin wafer, known as... Read more

30 September, 2003 by Ina Fried

IBM combination technique speeds PC chips

...asserts that it wasn't easy to accomplish. First, a layer of silicon germanium is deposited on the wafer, which is then topped with a... Read more

9 September, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Intel chips to go their own way

IDF: Intel is set to outline its plans for the future at its developer conference this week, including the separation of desktop and notebook processors Read more

18 February, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

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