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Tuned transistors make cheaper chips
Blog In the same way that a pillow filled with pebbles is harder to get smooth than one stuffed with sand, chip makers are finding it harder to make transistors behave predictably as they shrink. And uneven transistors are disasterous.
[November 6, 2008, 15:12]
Plastic transistors get rubber stamp
News Silk-screening and other techniques to create so-called "plastic transistors" have been proposed, but none can create really small transistors. On Wednesday, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies Inc.
[March 25, 1999, 5:59]
Intel unfurls experimental 3D transistors
News Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up. Rival IBM is currently working on a double-gate transistor and has managed to make an entire chip with these types...
[September 17, 2002, 8:21]
Nanotech gets ready to take on transistors
News For half a century, electronics has been synonymous with transistors. Create two sets of parallel wires -- one running north-south, the other east-west -- and put roxatane molecules at each cross-over, and you have a memory architecture that can...
[February 9, 2005, 15:10]
Bell Labs finds end of the road for transistors
News Moore's Law states that the number of transistors per integrated circuit will double every 18 months, and has held true since 1965. We need to see whether we can do amplification and switching with single molecules, to see where the ultimate limit...
[October 18, 2001, 15:34]
Celebrating 60 years of transistors
News They could be shrunk at a consistent rate over time, which makes transistors and electronic products steadily cheaper and faster. Besides making it easier to store information and send signals, transistors had another, somewhat unanticipated...
[December 17, 2007, 7:33]
Chip researchers go ballistic for faster transistors
News Today's commercial transistors typically involve the flow of large numbers of electrons within silicon and their statistically significant changes when electric charges are applied. US scientists at the University of Rochester are working on a new...
[August 17, 2006, 13:05]
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]
Tuned transistors make cheaper chips
Blog Comment I removed a paragraph from the blog when writing it, on how at certain points 'analogue' becomes 'digital' and 'digital' becomes 'analogue', and how there are always aspects of analogue design in digital (and, when we get down to quantum levels...
[November 7, 2008, 13:33]
Chip researchers go ballistic for faster transistors
Talkback So if these things are mounted sideways, does this mean you'd need to take gravity into account. Tip your laptop to the left it runs fine. Tip it to the right and windows crashes. No wait - that's what we have now.
[August 18, 2006, 11:39]
Tuned transistors make cheaper chips
Blog Comment "OK? I thought. What is the picture of the trailing edge of a plane's wing got to do with electronics? points for whoever picked the illustration, it sucked me right into reading the article. I differ with you on only one point.
[November 7, 2008, 13:16]
Premier IT Magazine: Reinvented Transistors
White Papers 45-nm Manufacturing Creating the Next Wave of Quad-Core Processors
[March 5, 2008, 1:17]
Slingbox! Party! Nibbles! Transistors!
Blog Just back from a party thrown by Slingbox, the company that links your TV to the Internet for remote viewing. The bash was originally intended to celebrate the launch of new models (faster streaming, more inputs, HD compatibility, that sort of...
[September 27, 2007, 22:51]
Intel releases video on 45nm and hafnium metal-gate transistors
Blog At the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) this week in Washington. Intel talked some more about its 45nm technology - and has also produced a video showing hitherto secret R&D and production techniques.
[December 13, 2007, 12:11]
Xerox prints out rolls of chips
News Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center has developed a way to use inkjet printing techniques to create cheap, flexible sheets of transistors -- a process that could radically change the way flat-panel screens are created.
[October 29, 2003, 13:50]
HP says it can reduce impact of chip defects
News HP has revealed another aspect of its crossbar switch technology that it hopes will replace transistors as the main off-on switch in semiconductors. These chips will also contain approximately 50 percent more interconnects -- the microscopic wires...
[June 9, 2005, 12:30]
AMD opens the transistor gates
News AMD has created new high-performance transistors in its labs based on the simple concept that sometimes two are better than one. AMD is the latest major chipmaker to announce work on so-called double-gate transistors that are based on a design...
[September 11, 2002, 8:19]
There's life in the old law yet, says Moore
News Moore's Law postulates that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. The ability of semiconductor designers to regularly squeeze more transistors onto a single silicon chip to increase computing performance has largely been the...
[July 10, 2002, 10:46]
'Hammer' chips away at processor limits
News A chip with a hundred million transistors is currently considered unusual. The Athlon has about 38 million transistors, bringing the total for Hammer to about 95 million. Other chips with large caches and a high number of transistors include Banias...
[November 27, 2002, 14:50]
Intel shrinks chips to 90 nanometres
News Intel announced that its labs have produced memory chips that contain 330 million transistors, through manufacturing technology that will hit the mainstream next year. Under Moore's Law, the number of transistors on a given chip doubles every 18 to...
[March 12, 2002, 16:48]
