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IBM Gives Silicon Germanium Chips A Speed Boost
News IBM will announce the availability of its fourth generation of chips based on silicon germanium technology on Friday. Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and reduce the power consumption of chips that go into cellular...
[August 5, 2005, 10:30]
IBM Hits A Chip Milestone
News IBM's semiconductor division reached 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 the power consumption of chips that go...
[May 22, 2002, 7:32]
US Report: IBM Could Put Phones In Almost Anything
News Monday, the company unveiled improvements in the manufacturing of integrated chips using a material known as silicon germanium, or SiGe. Silicon germanium is a semiconductor that is more efficient than the CMOS technology used in producing today's...
[October 13, 1998, 10:23]
IBM Turns Up The Transistor Heat
News IBM has refined its silicon-germanium chip-manufacturing technology to produce transistors that are far thinner than others. IBM has been a leader in blending germanium and silicon atoms to produce a material that conducts electricity more...
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
Full Speed Ahead For IBM Transistor
News SiGe technology embeds germanium atoms at various places into the silicon crystal that makes up a transistor. The new transistor design, based on its silicon germanium, or SiGe, chipmaking technology, delivers a threefold increase in speed.
[November 4, 2002, 10:30]
IBM And RF To Build Diddy Phones?
News The two firms plan to work together to develop radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on IBM's silicon germanium (SiGe) technology. Rupert Deighton, IBM Microelectronics' communications manager for Europe said that although it would be...
[October 15, 1999, 15:03]
IBM Paves Way To 100GHz Chips
News IBM's transistor is based on a mixture of silicon and germanium, another semiconductor. Ironically, germanium was the very first material used to make transistors, but was sensitive to heat and made very slow devices.
[June 25, 2001, 18:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Oh yes it does, says IBM, if you add a pinch of germanium. If you pardon me mixing my vehicular metaphors, germanium is the Model-T element of the semiconductor business; in the early days of the game, it proved that you could mass-produce...
[June 29, 2001, 18:19]
AMD Starts Shipping Its 65nm Chips
News In the N-channel transistors, which carry negative electrons, germanium spreads out the lattice of the silicon; electrons flow more freely — a comparison would be a deer running through a forest that's been thinned of trees.
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
Intel's Got Fab Plans To Cut Costs
News While the communications chips will be made on regular Silicon wafers and contain standard transistors, a number will incorporate Silicon Germanium transistors. We're architecting a process where we can do high-powered CMOS (complementary metal...
[September 16, 2002, 9:32]
IBM, AMD Team Up To Strain Silicon
News Straining through germanium is also tricky and expensive. To date, most companies have strained silicon by inserting a layer of germanium below the transistors. The larger germanium atoms pull the silicon atoms in the transistor layer apart from...
[December 13, 2004, 8:15]
IBM Combination Technique Speeds PC Chips
News The concept -- which involves embedding a layer of silicon and large germanium atoms deep into the wafer to spread out pure silicon layers above it -- was initially introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but most dismissed it.
[September 9, 2003, 16:55]
Motorola: New Chip Will Bring GPS To All
News Although Motorola has its own large semiconductor division, the Motorola Automotive Group chose to contract with IBM to manufacture the new chip using Big Blue's silicon germanium chipmaking process. Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost...
[September 24, 2002, 8:11]
'Strained Silicon' To Pump Up Chips
News In strained silicon, the atoms are stretched by inserting germanium atoms into the chip's silicon lattice. Another chipmaking technique involves adding a layer of silicon-germanium into the transistor bed.
[December 6, 2002, 7:11]
A High Average-Efficiency SiGe HBT Power Amplifier For WCDMA Handset Applications
White Papers The linearity of a Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) HBT Power Amplifier (PA) is analyzed with the help of a power-dependent coefficient Volterra technique. The effect of emitter inductance is included and the dominant sources of nonlinearity are identified.
[February 15, 2006, 0:01]
Chip Breaks Speed Record In Deep Freeze
News The experiment 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 they also contain germanium for better performance and lower power consumption.
[June 20, 2006, 9:15]
A High-Efficiency SiGe BiCMOS WCDMA Power Amplifier With Dynamic Current Biasing For Improved Average Efficiency
White Papers In recent years, Silicon Germanium (SiGe) has become a competitive candidate for the development of handset power amplifiers (PAS), since SiGe exhibits high efficiency, good linearity, high current gain, low-cost and Lompatibility with BiCMOS...
[February 15, 2006, 0:01]
News Burst: IBM And RF To Help Build Diddy Phones
News The two firms plan to work together to develop radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on IBM's silicon germanium (SiGe) technology. The project is expected to reduce the number of chips required in upcoming wireless handsets which would...
[October 15, 1999, 10:29]
IBM Talks Up Power-saving Chips
News 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 silicon on insulator (SOI). IBM plans to announce on Tuesday a design it says paves the way for cellphone chips that...
[September 30, 2003, 8:35]
Start-up Crams Single Chip With Phone, GPS And Bluetooth
News Ashvatta is keeping the details of its technology secret, but it uses IBM's silicon-germanium BiCMOS process -- the company says that other manufacturers could make the chip, but at the cost of increased power consumption.
[March 22, 2002, 13:25]
