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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]
Intel Tri-Gate Transistors Will Enable A New Era In Energy-Efficient Performance
White Papers Intel researchers have developed improved CMOS tri-gate (3-D) transistors, which are the first to integrate high-k gate dielectrics and strained silicon to produce record drive currents and transistor efficiency.
[August 1, 2006, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Integration Of High-Performance Transistors, High-Density SRAMs, And 10-Level Copper Interconnects Into A 90 Nm CMOS Technology
White Papers This paper presents a 40 nm-gate-length transistor, an ultra-high-density 6T SRAM cell, 10-level Cu interconnects, and Very-Low-K (VLK) dielectrics for high-performance microprocessor applications. The key process features are 193 nm lithography...
[February 29, 2008, 23:00]
Fujitsu Siemens Lays Out Nanotech Roadmap
News Microprocessors that use carbon nanotubes rather than copper wires to connect layers of transistors may be available in less than a decade, according to Fujitsu Siemens. The first microprocessor of the world was made by Intel in 1971 and contained...
[March 10, 2005, 15:20]
Intel's Breakthrough In High-K Gate Dielectric Drives Moore's Law Well Into The Future
White Papers Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles every processor generation, is the foundation for the exponential growth of computing power and component integration at reduced cost.
[August 1, 2006, 0:00]
IBM Readies Speedy New Chips
News IBM will announce on Monday that the fastest silicon transistors made so far are ready to appear on chips designed to speed up computer networks. The company's Semiconductor Division has combined many of its so-called 210GHz transistors into...
[February 25, 2002, 12:22]
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]
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]
IBM Reaches Nano-computing Breakthrough
News IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing.
[May 20, 2002, 8:38]
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]
Double-gate Chip Stops Power Leakage
News IBM's labs have produced a chip with double-gate transistors, a significant milestone in the raging semiconductor space race. Scientists at the Armonk, N.Y.based company revealed that they have manufactured a working static RAM chip out of so...
[September 9, 2002, 15:15]
