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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]
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]
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 The new transistor design, based on its silicon germanium, or SiGe, chipmaking technology, delivers a threefold increase in speed. SiGe technology embeds germanium atoms at various places into the silicon crystal that makes up a transistor.
[November 4, 2002, 10:30]
IBM Paves Way To 100GHz Chips
News IBM's transistor is based on a mixture of silicon and germanium, another semiconductor. The industry moved to silicon as quickly as it could, discarding germanium and concentrating on GaAs -- in which electrons travel up to six times faster -- as...
[June 25, 2001, 18:23]
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 Earlier, AMD tried to incorporate germanium strained silicon from AmberWave into its chips, but subsequently terminated the project. To date, most companies have strained silicon by inserting a layer of germanium below the transistors.
[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]
'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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Silicon was trickier to make use of, but once the details had been sorted out germanium was shown the door. 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...
[June 29, 2001, 18:19]
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]
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 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.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Strained Silicon Speeds AMD's Chips
News Both IBM and Intel embed a layer of silicon and larger germanium atoms into chips. Advanced Micro Devices has begun to incorporate a form of strained silicon into its chips, in a design twist that will let the company increase the performance of...
[August 20, 2004, 8:50]
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]
New Chipset Promises Gigabit Broadband On Cable And Wireless
News Built around specialist company Jazz Semiconductor's silicon-germanium (SiGe) 150GHz, 180nm process, the chip will be low power yet offer higher performance than the current specifications for UWB require, Pulse~LINK says.
[May 11, 2004, 15:20]
Intel's High-powered Engineers Create Low-power Chips
News Another important part of the transistor's design is that some of its silicon is put under strain by making it sit next to layers of different material - silicon germanium or a silicon nitride - which have atoms arranged at a different spacing to...
[August 26, 2005, 12:55]
