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The cutting edge of graphene edge cutting

Using a scanning tunnelling microscope, resolving at a sub-nanometre scale, researchers in the US have taken a detailed look at the... Read more

12 May, 2011

Tiny magnets point to ultra low-power processors

...at the Virginia Commonwealth University say that their work with layers of nanometre scale magnets could pave the way for processors so power efficient could... Read more

27 January, 2011

IBM and ARM collaborate on 14nm tech

...and ARM have announced they are to work together on designing 14 nanometre semiconductor technology. The two companies will extend an existing relationship to produce... Read more

19 January, 2011
Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

Benchmarks: high-end Android smartphones

...Remember also that hardware development is ongoing. The next generation of 45-nanometre ARM processors is in the wings — the current generation has a feature... Read more

15 September, 2010 by Christoph H Hochstätter

After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

...create the tools to work effectively with the new material and with nanometre precision. Other challenges facing graphene transistors include producing high-quality graphene sheets... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Silicon nanowires give Moore's Law some breathing space

...a challenge, but by spiking the silicon crystal with phosphorus atoms every nanometre or so, the team was able to demonstrate diameter-independent resistivity. From... Read more

17 January, 2012

US academics develop self-healing circuits

...the circuit's dielectric layer in 200 micrometre-wide — 200,000 nanometre — microcapsules of liquid gallium-indium (Ga-In) alloy, or by embedding... Read more

22 December, 2011

Graphene nanotubes promise better stacked chips

...long, which can be compared to the diameter, which is only 10 nanometres," said Wang. "Their properties, however, are not yet perfect."Moreover, work is... Read more

12 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Fusion-io updates flagship ioDrive flash cards

...ioDrive and ioDrive Duo. Fusion-io has stepped down to a 2x nanometre flash process (made on process between 20nm and 29nm) from a 3x... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Samsung launches 'industry's largest' memory fab

...Samsung to make dynamic and flash memory anywhere between 20 and 29 nanometres, although the company will not say exactly what feature size it is... Read more

22 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Superzoom: snaps of graphene's crumpled electron clouds

...of what things really look like, once you get down to the nanometre scale. This picture, put together by chemists at the University at Buffalo... Read more

28 June, 2011

'Epic' GP-B NASA probe proves Einstein right

Nearly half a century in the planning, armed with 13 new technologies and four of the most perfect spheres ever created,... Read more

5 May, 2011

AMD rejigs GlobalFoundries wafer supply agreement

...s future growth prospects.Catching up AMD is attempting to close the nanometre node gap with Intel, which currently puts AMD at a lag of... Read more

4 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Researchers detail programmable nanoprocessor

...integrated systems of the future." Each nanowire is built from a 10-nanometre diameter germanium nanowire core and a two-nanometre thick silicon shell. The... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Jack Clark
Sandy Bridge: Intel's next-generation CPU

Sandy Bridge: Intel's next-generation CPU

...Sandy Bridge, the first major redesign of the x86 architecture on 32 nanometres (nm). In a series of announcements, the company described the architecture and... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Joachim Kaufmann

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