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Light-emitting silicon boosts chip speeds
News Scientists at Surrey University, led by researcher Kevin Homewood, are showing off a prototype silicon-based light-emitting diode (LED) -- an invention that could be of significance to the whole electronics and communication industry.
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News Researchers at Xerox's Wilson Centre for Research and Technology announced on Wednesday that they have created a silicon chip about the size of a fingertip that contains switches and waveguides for fibre-optic communication.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
Rupert Goodwins' San Francisco IDF Diary
Blog I don't think I can gaze upon the face of another silicon chip without shuddering, ever again. Which is why I spend the morning in sessions looking at silicon chips in extreme close-up, and why I then allow myself to be transported to Santa Clara...
[March 4, 2002, 8:59]
Intel demonstrates silicon laser
News The experimental chip includes silicon on insulator, a technology promoted by IBM and one Intel has regularly criticised when used in microprocessors. The chipmaker has created a chip containing eight continuous Raman lasers by using fairly...
[February 17, 2005, 14:05]
Next-gen Bluetooth chips play nicely with Wi-Fi
News UK chip designer Cambridge Silicon Radio on Monday said it is sampling its third-generation Bluetooth wireless connectivity products, which will support the upcoming version 1.2 of the Bluetooth specification, and will give hardware makers the...
[June 9, 2003, 14:13]
Sapphire when ready for laser chips
News A tiny chip made from silicon and sapphire and including banks of microscopic lasers may be the future of fast computing, say researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. The researchers have adapted an existing technology called silicon...
[January 8, 2002, 17:45]
Intel XScale: 1GHz in your palm
News At its developer conference Wednesday, Intel demonstrated the first silicon from its XScale Microarchitecture -- a beefed up version of the chip maker's StrongARM architecture -- for use in a wide range of non-PC applications, running at speeds up...
[August 24, 2000, 9:57]
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]
The Day Ahead: Silicon Labs has the recipe for a hot IPO
News Silicon Laboratories, a communications chip manufacturer, has all the ingredients for a hot initial public offering (IPO) on Friday. Like other chip manufacturers in the communications sector, Silicon Labs is cashing in on strong demand and the...
[March 23, 2000, 11:48]
Peregrine optical chips ready to fly
News Peregrine employs a silicon-on-sapphire manufacturing process, developed in part by research conducted for the US Navy in a project aimed at developing new chip technologies outside of silicon. The communications chipmaker will announce next week...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
Intel unveils new chip manufacturing technology
News By stretching the silicon, we can make the electrons move faster" inside the chip, he said. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker will use "strained silicon" -- or silicon where the atoms in the chip's silicon base are spaced further apart...
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
Projector chip cleans up image
News Cheaper home cinema, instruments projected onto windscreens in cars and Bladerunner-style video on buildings are all closer with a new chip announced last week by Californian company Silicon Video. It can also be used to digitally correct...
[June 18, 2001, 14:27]
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]
IDF: Intel sees dual-core Itanium by 2005
News With chip manufacturing advances, chipmakers can unite pairs of processors so they're etched onto a single slice of silicon, making the chips less expensive and therefore more competitive. With each new manufacturing-process generation, circuitry...
[September 11, 2002, 8:02]
HP nanotech takes chips beyond transistors
News The principle, which states that chipmakers can double the number of transistors on a silicon chip every two years, has enabled the industry to shrink the size and cost of things like computers and cell phones while improving their performance.
[February 1, 2005, 8:25]
IBM to hit 1GHz with PowerPC chip
News IBM will take the wraps off a gigahertz-capable PowerPC chip on Monday at the Microprocessor Forum, one of the year's top events for the silicon set. SOI adds a layer of oxide material between a transistor and the silicon substrate it rests on...
[October 15, 2001, 10:35]
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. In a move that could pave the way for faster and less power-hungry networking chips, IBM plans to announce Monday that it...
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
Motorola crystallises memory breakthrough
News Motorola plans to announce on Monday that it has manufactured prototypes of a flash memory chip that relies on a thin layer of silicon crystals to retain data, a breakthrough that could help the flash industry overcome looming technical hurdles.
[March 31, 2003, 8:08]
The future is very, very small, say Intel
News For Intel, moving away from silicon is a matter of when, not if. The new oxide gate will be about twice as thick as a gate oxide made out of silicon dioxide, but it will behave as if it were a thinner, higher-performance layer.
[October 25, 2004, 16:55]
Microsoft chips in for Xbox Next
News Doherty speculated that Microsoft's IBM-flavoured processor probably wouldn't represent as radical a departure as Cell, but that the chip would differ from the silicon found in Macs. By switching from using relatively standard parts to more...
[November 10, 2003, 12:20]
