Kewney: Silicon Fen Is Strewn With Smoke, Mirrors
News The suggestion is that this will establish a new 'Silicon Fen', which will rival the west coast of California's Silicon Valley. For a start, unless you know something about the silicon industry, it is literally impossible to conceive how massive...
[June 4, 1997, 9:24]
Silicon.com Brought Down By Burglars
News UK technology news site silicon.com has been taken offline, by burglars. As a result, silicon.com, silicon.fr and atscojobs.com have all been forced offline. A spokesman for silicon confirmed Tuesday that the sites have been down since the attack.
[January 9, 2001, 12:53]
Silicon Valley: Mixed Signals For The Future
News If Stephen Levy were to write a book about Silicon Valley, he would be likely riff on the title of a Dickens novel. For example, venture capital investment in Silicon Valley rose by 15 percent last year, and the region now receives 35 percent of...
[February 11, 2005, 14:15]
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: Silicon Valley Football Classic
White Papers ILoop Mobile and the Silicon Valley Football Classic organized two standard rate in-game mobile initiatives for the Silicon Valley Football Classic: SVFC On-Field Photographer Contest, and quizme sports trivia contest.
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
Silicon Photonics Breakthroughs
White Papers The presentation provides a new Silicon Photonics breakthrough to make arrays of low cost Tera-Bit links and explains how silicon photonics provides as technology option for Tera-Scale I/O. This presentation provides a vision to "Siliconize...
[November 3, 2006, 23:00]
Silicon-based Optics To Reach Market 'in Two Years'
News Luxtera, a start-up with a fairly strong silicon pedigree, says it will marry fast optical communications to cheap silicon manufacturing in about two years, sooner than competitors. The Carlsbad, California-based company announced on Monday that it...
[March 29, 2005, 17:20]
Silicon's Successor Lurks In The Lab
News Silicon nanowires might be less perfect, but they may be easier to integrate into chips," said KJ Cho, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Other researchers also say that silicon nanowires -- solid microscopic strands of...
[October 20, 2003, 16:05]
CMOS Radio: Ubiquitous, Silicon-Based Wireless Connectivity
White Papers As Intel applies its silicon technologies across a new geography of computing and communications paradigms, a more integrated continuum of computing and communications services is made possible. Intel is developing the "Radio of tomorrow.
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Silicon Balls Drop In Zero G For Solar Cell Magic
Blog What do you think happens when you dribble molten silicon at thousands of droplets per second through a 14 metre tube? Rather magically, thousands of highly efficient, highly tiny, very spherical solar cells are created.
[March 10, 2008, 21:30]
Kewney (2): Silicon Fen Strewn With Smoke, Mirrors
News In Silicon Valley, Rosenthal remarked, it's the fact that VC people are prepared to blow their money on 12 almost certain turkeys - in the hope that against all the odds, one of them might fly - that created the climate.
[June 4, 1997, 9:25]
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. Yes, folks, Silicon Labs is a real company. Like other chip manufacturers in the communications sector, Silicon...
[March 23, 2000, 11:48]
News Burst: Silicon Graphics Makes Loss Of $220m
News Workstation maker Silicon Graphics reported Thursday a larger-than-expected fourth quarter operating loss of $57m (£34.75m), or 31 cents a share. Including restructuring charges, the company reported a loss of $220m (£134m), or $1.17 per share.
[July 24, 1998, 10:47]
Silicon's Successor Lurks In The Lab
Talkback I will be very great full to you if you could provide me the information about the carbon chip that is being manfuctured to replace the silicon transistor chip in the electronics. your efforts are appriciated to provide thew usefull informations...
[June 7, 2004, 13:38]
Kodak Opens Silicon Valley Office
News Eastman Kodak announced Wednesday it expanded its venture capital arm into Silicon Valley, as the film giant looks to tap into new digital technology companies. Technology is being developed all over the world, but we wanted to have more smart eyes...
[June 21, 2001, 9:09]
Will Intel Smash The Silicon Barrier?
News The public roadmap for Intel’s core transistor design goes to 2011, where 22nm devices built on strained silicon with metal electrodes and high-K dielectrics. The tube can be between 1nm and 25nm across, and can be used to form part of a transistor...
[March 1, 2005, 16:10]
Intel's Silicon R&D Pipeline (High Bandwidth)
White Papers Silicon technology is the foundation on which Intel's chips and platforms are built. Intel has a silicon R&D pipeline which produces a new process technology every two years, in accordance with Moore's Law.
[August 1, 2006, 0:00]
Bangalore Closing Gap On Silicon Valley
News Bangalore may be on the verge of overtaking Silicon Valley as the biggest IT employment region in the world on the back of the rise in offshore outsourcing, according to some estimates. Gowda claims that Bangalore has already overtaken Silicon...
[July 29, 2004, 8:55]
Strained Silicon Speeds AMD's Chips
News 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 its processors. The strained silicon is being incorporated into all of AMD's 90...
[August 20, 2004, 8:50]
Intel Demonstrates Silicon Laser
News Intel has devised a laser out of silicon, the latest in a series of steps that could take the expense and pain out of optical communication. The chipmaker has created a chip containing eight continuous Raman lasers by using fairly standard silicon...
[February 17, 2005, 14:05]
UK Start-up To Commercialise Optical Silicon
News A start-up formed by the University of Surrey has received a feasibility grant from the Department of Trade and Industry to commercialise its research on integrating optical components into silicon chips, a technology that could ultimately lead to...
[November 5, 2003, 17:20]

