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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 technology is directly influencing an increasing number of next-generation consumer devices and applications...
[August 5, 2005, 10:30]
IBM, AMD Team Up To Strain Silicon
News IBM and AMD have devised a new way of straining silicon -- a design technique that improves chip performance -- they claim will be cheaper, faster and easier to implement. Called "Dual Stress Liners", or DSL, the technique will ideally eliminate...
[December 13, 2004, 8:15]
Optimization Of Silicon Technology For The IBM System Z9
White Papers IBM 90-nm Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology was used for the key chips in the System z9 processor chipset. Along with system design, optimization of some critical features of this technology enabled the z9 to achieve double the system...
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
IBM And RF To Build Diddy Phones?
News A collaboration between computing giant IBM and silicon developer RF Micro Devices could result in a tinier, more powerful generation of mobile phones, the companies said yesterday. The two firms plan to work together to develop radio frequency...
[October 15, 1999, 15:03]
IBM Incorporates XML Into Content Management
News Unlike Intel or Advanced Micro Devices, which adopt city and place names for their code names, IBM's Silicon Valley lab gets its code names from food. The technology, dubbed Project Cinnamon, is being developed at the company's Silicon Valley...
[July 27, 2004, 12:50]
IBM Turns Up The Transistor Heat
News In a move that could pave the way for faster and less power-hungry networking chips, IBM plans to announce Monday that it has developed the world's fastest silicon transistor. IBM has refined its silicon-germanium chip-manufacturing technology to...
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
IBM Paves Way To 100GHz Chips
News As expected, IBM today announced the world's fastest silicon-based transistor, paving the way to speeds five times faster than at present. IBM's transistor is based on a mixture of silicon and germanium, another semiconductor.
[June 25, 2001, 18:23]
IBM Adds Zip To PowerPC Chips
News IBM is ready to enter production with a new performance-enhancing microprocessor technology, called "silicon-on-insulator," the company announced Monday. IBM claims the addition of silicon-on-insulator, or SOI, can increase a processor's...
[May 23, 2000, 8:13]
US Report: IBM Chips As Smooth As Ice
News On Monday, IBM plans to unveil a new "silicon-on-insulator" processor technology that makes the basic building block of silicon chips -- the transistor -- more efficient. SOI's ability to make one of two key components of silicon chips more...
[August 3, 1998, 9:40]
IBM Combination Technique Speeds PC Chips
News Silicon on insulator, a technique pioneered by IBM, was one of the first technologies developed to contain the energy problem. Although the marriage of strained silicon and insulating layers was to some degree inevitable, IBM asserts that it wasn't...
[September 9, 2003, 16:55]
IBM To Share Chip Intelligence
News Under terms of the alliance, announced late Monday, Sony and Toshiba will be able to incorporate some of IBM's chip-making advances, such as Silicon on Insulator, into future processors for consumer-electronic devices.
[April 2, 2002, 15:27]
IBM Readies Speedy New Chips
News IBM will announce on Monday that the fastest silicon transistors made so far are ready to appear on chips designed to speed up computer networks. IBM will manufacture the new chips using its silicon germanium, or SiGE, technology.
[February 25, 2002, 12:22]
Chip Breaks Speed Record In Deep Freeze
News IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit. IBM has sold hundreds of millions of SiGe chips since it began selling them in 1998, but the...
[June 20, 2006, 9:15]
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. IBM's SiGe manufacturing process embeds germanium atoms inside the silicon crystal that forms the base of a chip.
[May 22, 2002, 7:32]
'Strained Silicon' To Pump Up Chips
News Researchers and design engineers from IBM and Intel will present papers at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) next week that detail their work on "strained silicon," a manufacturing technique that promises to boost processor...
[December 6, 2002, 7:11]
IBM's Chip Future May Woo Sun
News The new technology is believed to be a variation of the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) developments that IBM has been working on for some time. The new IBM process alters the way silicon behaves by placing a layer of insulator underneath a layer of...
[February 7, 2006, 15:35]
Tiny Tubes Mean Big Chip Advances
News IBM researchers have achieved a breakthrough the company says will help pave the way for the next era in the evolution of the microprocessor -- beyond silicon. IBM believes that nanotubes, which measure five atoms to ten atoms wide and are 10,000...
[April 27, 2001, 10:22]
IBM Reaches Nano-computing Breakthrough
News IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing.
[May 20, 2002, 8:38]
IBM Urged To Lead Green-technology Charge
News However, the judges — made up of industry experts and journalists from ZDNet.co.uk and silicon.com — awarded IBM the prize in the hope that the company would use its position to improve the extent to which the IT industry is really embracing green...
[September 25, 2007, 15:12]
IBM Saves Chipmaking Kit From An Early Bath
News IBM Research has come up with a way to draw lines in silicon 29.9nm apart with existing chipmaking machines, far closer than on today's chips, a development that could help cut the cost of making chips in the future.
[February 20, 2006, 15:35]
