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ST Micro sees silicon light
News ST Microelectronics announced on Monday that it has discovered a way to efficiently insert optical components onto silicon chips, a breakthrough that opens the door to cheaper, more power-efficient semiconductors.
[October 29, 2002, 8:01]
IBM thinks big about nanotechnology
News The group will offer "deep experience in silicon microelectronics and microelectronic packaging," Thies said -- adding quickly that the programme is extremely selective. The group, part of the emerging-products organisation inside IBM...
[May 16, 2002, 10:07]
Sun breathes new life into Sparc efforts
News Sun Microelectronics also will sell other silicon products for networking and cryptography, Yen said, as well as some design services. In the 1990s, the company's Sun Microelectronics unit sold its chips internally to Sun itself and externally to...
[March 28, 2007, 9:43]
'Strained silicon' to pump up chips
News IBM now plans to introduce strained silicon in its 65-nanometer manufacturing technology, which lies two chip generations and about three years in the future, said Jeff Welser, a project manager at IBM Microelectronics.
[December 6, 2002, 7:11]
IBM to produce Nvidia chips
News Nvidia has signed a pact with IBM Microelectronics to help it avoid putting all of its graphics chips in one basket. The Microelectronics division, working with IBM Research, has introduced a number of new chip-manufacturing technology...
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
Surrey, London and Peking get a yuan for spintronics
Blog Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping silicon structures for use in spintronic devices.
[July 2, 2009, 16:37]
Light-emitting silicon boosts chip speeds
News British scientists are claiming a breakthrough that promises to unite microelectronics with fibre optics and bring about an upheaval in microprocessor manufacturing and modern communications. Scientists at Surrey University, led by researcher Kevin...
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
585_kit.exe
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:Trident Accelerrator ISA/VL (v6.00.32) Trident 9320 PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9440 PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9660/968x/938x/978x PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9470 PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9783 PCI (v6.00.32...
[September 4, 1997, 8:00]
las_kit.exe
Downloads Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.REALMODE/Readme.txt .FASTIR/Readme.txt .REALMODE/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:ES1879 Control Interface ES1879 Plug and Play AudioDrive Trident...
[March 28, 1998, 7:00]
OB3000.ZIP
Downloads Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.VIDEO/Readme.txt .TOUCHPAD/Readme.txt .SOUND/Readme.txt .PCMCIA.FIX/Readme.txt .APM/Readme.txt .VIDEO/Readme.txt .TOUCHPAD/Readme.txt .SOUND/Readme.txt .PCCARD/Readme.txt .CDROM...
[September 10, 1997, 7:00]
1t2xw26.exe
Downloads C) IBM Thinkpad Infrared Port Printer Port ECP Printer Port Communications Port Generic Ir Serial Port Intel PCIC compatible PCMCIA controller Intel PCI to PCMCIA Bridge MobileMax Deskrunner ISA PCMCIA Controller Texas Instruments PCI-1130 CardBus...
[September 21, 1999, 8:00]
Taiwanese firms share chip secrets
News The group, tentatively named the Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) Qualification Alliance, is made up of Taiwan's largest semiconductor players, including United Microelectronics and Taiwan Semiconductor.
[April 14, 2003, 13:03]
Full speed ahead for IBM transistor
News The company's microelectronics division will detail the design at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco in December. SiGe technology embeds germanium atoms at various places into the silicon crystal that makes up a...
[November 4, 2002, 10:30]
IBM and RF to build diddy phones?
News Rupert Deighton, IBM Microelectronics' communications manager for Europe said that although it would be possible to make very tiny phones with silicon germanium, the more likely outcome of the new technology would be highly-integrated, multi...
[October 15, 1999, 15:03]
Researchers move toward plastic chips
News But several promising research efforts are underway to combine the two realms, using organic polymers as material for the production of microelectronics, including transistors and displays. They're neighbours on the periodic table of elements, but...
[October 12, 2001, 9:05]
Does Moore's Law no longer apply?
News A processor can be extremely fast, says Russell Lange, director of Silicon Technology Strategy for IBM's Microelectronics Division, but if it does not have data to process what good is it? Moore's Law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore...
[February 9, 2000, 9:37]
New insulator strengthens future of Moore's Law
News There is a limit to how small microelectronics devices can be made. As the parts get smaller, they reach a point where they no longer perform the function that they are intended to perform -- as the silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulation used in...
[January 5, 2004, 7:55]
Via chips from IBM
News Taiwan's Via Technologies has selected IBM Microelectronics to manufacture its next processor, marking another step in Big Blue's plan to become the helping hand to chipmakers in need. Historically, Asian foundries -- chipmakers such as Taiwan...
[January 7, 2004, 13:05]
US Report: IBM chips as smooth as ice
News Eventually, this is a technology that will appear universally in all electronic products," said Tom Beermann, director of communications for IBM Microelectronics. On Monday, IBM plans to unveil a new "silicon-on-insulator" processor technology that...
[August 3, 1998, 9:40]
AMD and IBM expand alliance
News AMD was also trying to end a doomed relationship with foundry United Microelectronics. Creating a technique to reduce power consumption, such as straining silicon, can take years and cost millions. At the time, AMD was having trouble with silicon...
[August 16, 2005, 10:00]
