IBM Paves Way To 100GHz Chips
News The device isn't the fastest transistor in the world, but it does use standard production techniques -- other devices, such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) transistors, are swifter but need specialist design and production tools.
[June 25, 2001, 18:23]
Night Goggles Get Nano-vision
News Each dot has a core of indium arsenide surrounded by gallium arsenide and an indium-gallium arsenide alloy. Tiny pyramids of molecules commonly used in communications chips could potentially reduce the cost and increase the performance of night...
[June 17, 2004, 9:45]
IBM Turns Up The Transistor Heat
News If successful, IBM could help chip designers avoid having to move more of their processors to more exotic materials such as gallium arsenide or indium phosphide. Dataquest analyst Stan Bruederle said one of the possible beneficiaries of the new...
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
Peregrine Optical Chips Ready To Fly
News The gem offers several advantages over standard silicon, silicon germanium and gallium arsenide-based competitors, he said. It also allows for much greater integration of devices such as radios for cellular phones, because the overall package...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
IBM And RF To Build Diddy Phones?
News Traditionally, GSM phones have been built using a combination of silicon for digital services, and gallium arsenide for the radio frequency analogue element. Gallium arsenide has problems integrating with standard silicon, and isn't a flexible mass...
[October 15, 1999, 15:03]
Technology Innovator ANADIGICS Closes The Circuit To Spyware
White Papers Founded in 1985, ANADIGICS pioneered the cost-effective, high-volume manufacture of high-performance Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) integrated circuits. Spyware was impairing productivity threatening ANADIGICS' corporate data.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Motorola Mixes Up Chip Chemistry For Faster Circuits
News The technology layers gallium arsenide (GaAs) on top of silicon, marrying the very high speed of the first compound with the ease of manufacturing of the second. The technique is not limited to gallium arsenide -- other gallium compounds have been...
[September 4, 2001, 9:09]
Quantum Dots Lead To Entanglement Breakthrough
News Mostly made from gallium arsenide, a common semiconductor already widely used in fast logic and optoelectronics, the device's key components are quantum dots of indium arsenide 12nm in diameter and 6nm high.
[January 11, 2006, 17:45]
New Spin On Transistor Heralds Chip Revolution
News Although this has been done before with other materials, most notably gallium arsenide, this is the first time a substance has been produced that will work at room temperature. A fundamental breakthrough in solid-state physics has been announced...
[September 24, 2003, 17:05]
Cambridge Plastic Light Technology Licensed By Philips
News Light-emitting polymers (LEPs) look much like LEDs, the universal solid-state indicating devices, but are made of plastic rather than gallium arsenide. A new light-emitting technology, invented and developed in Cambridge, has taken its first step...
[September 5, 1996, 15:56]
Intel Splits Light To Speed Chips
News However, optical devices have typically been made from exotic materials such as gallium arsenide and indium phosphide, which are difficult to manufacture and therefore expensive. Intel has developed a method to marry silicon and photonics...
[February 17, 2004, 9:30]
IBM Claims Optical Computing Breakthrough
News The chips are "coupled" with other necessary optical components made in more exotic materials, such as indium phosphide (InP) and gallium arsenide (GaAs), IBM said. The ability to move an entire database or a complete movie from one system to...
[March 29, 2007, 17:04]
Intel Sees Moore's Law Wall Ahead
Talkback Although this has been done before with other materials, most notably gallium arsenide, this is the first time a substance has been produced that will work at room temperature. Michael Intel sees Moore's Law wall ahead " .i t depends on who is...
[December 4, 2003, 22:52]
Does Moore's Law No Longer Apply?
News The company is also beginning to ramp up new silicon on insulator technology, and late last year it marked the first anniversary of the shipping of Gallium Arsenide chips. If Moore's Law doesn't hold up, will it matter?
[February 9, 2000, 9:37]
Intel Unveils Next-gen Transistor Plans
News The experimental transistors right now rest on a substrate of gallium arsenide, an expensive material used in some communication chips. Intel plans to show off a prototype transistor this week that could help Moore's Law - and the semiconductor...
[December 8, 2005, 10:00]
Spinning Electrons Will Speed Up Chips
News Nogaret said that although research would use gallium arsenide semiconductors, the idea would be applicable to standard silicon production processes. A brand new physical effect may prove invaluable to chip makers seeking to speed up their designs...
[June 23, 2006, 10:40]
Intel Gets Optical With Fibre
News In addition, the chip-to-chip interconnection contains components that are made with gallium arsenide and germanium, which raises manufacturing costs. It's going to take a number of years, but optical fibre is going to get inside your PC.
[March 1, 2004, 14:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Seymour Cray bet the farm on gallium arsenide being so much faster than silicon that it would give him an unbeatable advantage in supercomputer technologies, despite the fact it cost a great deal more to manufacture.
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
