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Double-gate Chip Stops Power Leakage
News IBM's labs have produced a chip with double-gate transistors, a significant milestone in the raging semiconductor space race. Double-gate transistors like the Fin-Fet have emerged as one of the technologies that could help engineers ward off...
[September 9, 2002, 15:15]
New IBM Technology To Boost Chip Speed
News IBM has already made samples of Double Gate transistors, he added, which will likely start to appear in chips by 2006. In a presentation at the International Electron Devices meeting that starts Monday in Washington, DC, Big Blue will show off what...
[December 3, 2001, 8:53]
AMD Opens The Transistor Gates
News AMD is the latest major chipmaker to announce work on so-called double-gate transistors that are based on a design called the Fin Field Effect Transistor (Fin-Fet). IBM has already produced a static RAM chip using double-gate Fin-Fet transistors.
[September 11, 2002, 8:19]
'Strained Silicon' To Pump Up Chips
News As previously reported, IBM researchers are slated to present three papers on their efforts to build a double-gate transistor using the Fin Field Effect Transistor (Fin-Fet) approach. Strained silicon -- like double-gate and triple-gate transistors...
[December 6, 2002, 7:11]
AMD Plans To Remain Thorn In Intel's Side
News AMD researchers will serve up details on those efforts at this week's International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, offering a look at the company's progress toward creating a so-called double gate transistor design, and its work in...
[December 10, 2002, 9:37]
Intel To Unveil Nanotech Plans
News While I don't think (Intel) will follow double gate, I do think they have a solution that has some similarities to it. IBM has already disclosed plans for double-gate transistors that will begin to appear in 2006.
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
Intel Unfurls Experimental 3D Transistors
News Rival IBM is currently working on a double-gate transistor and has managed to make an entire chip with these types of transistors. At a presentation in Japan this week, the chipmaker plans to unveil more technical details behind its Tri-Gate...
[September 17, 2002, 8:21]
New FireWire Forges Ahead At Double Speed
News Industry sources said Apple Computer will likely be first out of the gate with computers that support 1394b, with the technology likely to show up in Macs as soon as late this year or early next year.
[May 24, 2001, 10:02]
Connect Four Cities
Downloads The Big Apple, Windy City, and the Golden Gate are yours to enjoy, all in a ten minute fun-filled break. Remain online and double-click the installer to proceed with the actual download (11MB). Now this classic game you played as a kid is back with...
[January 25, 2007, 21:58]
'Double-booked' Gates To Launch Vista In London
News Previous UK launches have been chaired by local celebrities such as Jonathan Ross, whose notably robust approach to the companies who hire him may no be considered compatible with Gate's typically earnest approach.
[January 8, 2007, 14:08]
Beyond The Conventional Transistor
White Papers These options include high-dielectric-constant (high-k) gate dielectric, metal gate electrode, double-gate FET, and strained-silicon FET. This paper focuses on approaches to continuing CMOS scaling by introducing new device structures and new...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Kodak Focuses On 3D Display
Talkback You use the gate to show let and right images, but this time at double the rate. The concept has been around for years: It works on the same concept as the movie film; take stating images that are all slightly different to the next and tyhen...
[March 17, 2004, 9:57]
New AMD Chip Set To Boost Athlon PCs
News Micron PC.com will be the first out of the gate in North America with a new PC line that pairs the Athlon chip with the new chipset and double data rate SDRAM. This memory can more than double the peak bandwidth available from today's 133MHz...
[October 31, 2000, 8:58]
IBM Unveils World's Smallest Transistor
News The length of the transistor's gate -- a tiny pathway for electricity -- is only 6 nanometers, or 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Transistors are the tiny devices that make up a chip's circuitry, acting like an on-and-off switch...
[December 9, 2002, 8:05]
Intel To Serve Up Metal Chips
News Intel is presenting the results of its research into metal gates at the International Gate Insulator Workshop taking place this week in Tokyo. The chipmaker is looking at revamping two fundamental elements of its transistors -- the transistor gate...
[November 5, 2003, 7:50]
Samsung Clears The Way For 16GB Flash Disks
News The key to development at such high densities and fine circuitry design is a 3-D cell transistor structure and high-dielectric gate insulating technology that minimizes the interference level between cells.
[September 21, 2004, 8:10]
Transistor Houses Two Independent Gates
News Researchers at the company's Texas, laboratory said on Monday that they have developed a dual-gate transistor in which the two gates can act independently, a first according to the company. Dual- and triple-gate transistors are one of the many...
[November 11, 2003, 9:30]
Motorola Tech Gets Flashy
News Motorola is creating the two methods because design limitations threaten to hamper today's most widely used silicon-based flash technology manufacturing technique -- called floating gate -- as the average size of memory cells in a chip grows smaller.
[February 7, 2003, 10:46]
Intel Sees Moore's Law Wall Ahead
News Strict control of the gate and channel region, therefore, are necessary to produce reliable results. When the length of the gate gets below 5 nanometres, however, tunneling will begin to occur. At 5-nanometre gate dimension, I would have to agree...
[December 2, 2003, 14:20]
IBM Readies Speedy New Chips
News IBM, for instance, has presented papers on Double Gate Transistors, futuristic components that will reduce energy consumption in chips, one of the major areas of research today. IBM will announce on Monday that the fastest silicon transistors made...
[February 25, 2002, 12:22]
