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- Germanium
- Ge The material used in making the first transistors. Although replaced by silicon years ago, it has made a comeback by being used in combination with silicon. See...
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- Moore's Law lives
- Moore's Law livesSpread OutYes, the physical world will limit us such as our fingers, eyes, and atoms, but we can just make the chips with more square inches. That's not very practical for phones or some laptops, but works fine on desktops and servers.In the PC world this point is...
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, Semiconductors, Desktops, Germanium, game
- Discussion threads 2005-11-04
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- Promise of more efficient solar cells
- Canadian researchers have found a way to make solar cells more efficient, perhaps twice as efficient as current tech used to convert sunlight into electricity. The work was done at Canada's McMasters University and is already in commercial development. It uses one-crystal thick layers of solar collecting materials...
- Tags: Silicon, Cell, Semiconductors, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Faster memories made of nanowires
- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed self-assembling nanowires which will allow to access data 1,000 times faster than current technologies such as Flash memory. They've used nanowires made of germanium, antimony and tellurium which can switch between amorphous and crystalline structures -- the equivalent of 0's and 1's....
- Tags: Memory, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- The most powerful microscope in the world
- A new microscope developed by the TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, has recorded the highest-resolution images ever seen (0.05 nanometer and below). This is equivalent to a quarter of the diameter of a carbon atom. This microscope will be delivered to the...
- Tags: Team, Microscope, TEAM Project, TEAM Microscope, TEAM Instrument, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- IBM introduces Power6 chip
- IBM introduces Power6 chipInteresting - are they lower voltage?For the last many years, companies have been lowering the voltage that the CPUs use. It has gone down from 5 to 4 to 1 volt. The maximum that you could go down would be .71 volt as .7 volt is needed...
- Tags: Semiconductors, chip, IBM Corp., IBM POWER6, volt, transistor
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- (Photos: D-Wave takes a quantum leap)
- (Photos: D-Wave takes a quantum leap)Is SUN picking this upSo we wait for the Canadians as we don't want to actually have a Germanium computer or anything too fast as to profit more off of waste, and here it is. Will SUN and IBM now be forced to capitulate?
- Tags: D-Wave, quantum leap, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- AMD releases 65 nm mainstream dual core processors
- AMD releases 65 nm mainstream dual core processorsAlready within tolerance?Please tell me that means that the Semprons aren't going to save any more energy by being shrank down to a 65 nm processor.That to me seems like one hell of a mis-stepCost reduction acheivementCongratulations to AMD as they can claim...
- Tags: Performance management, Processors, Semiconductors, dual-core processor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD IS, Intel Corp., AMD Sempron, chip, processor
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- TechNet: 'Nuclear world is a green world'
- TechNet, a bipartisan, political action group of high tech senior executives that promotes the growth of technology and innovation, hosted a dinner last night in Palo Alto to discuss some of its agenda items, which have included stances on education, patent reform, stock options and broadband and Internet policy. The...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, John Doerr, Floyd Kvamme, Microsoft TechNet
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- 3-D flexible computer chips
- Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have isolated a single-crystal film of semiconductor from the substrate on which it is built. Then they transferred this very thin film -- 200 nanometers thick -- on plastic. Both sides of the film can host active components and several layers can be stacked,...
- Tags: semiconductor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- A big boost for optical networks
- Both the Mercury News and the New York Times are reporting that engineers at Stanford University have built a silicon germanium modulator which can manipulate a beam of laser light on and off up to 100 billion times a second. This discovery is very important because the materials used, silicon...
- Tags: modulator, silicon
- Blog posts 2005-10-29
- IBM doubles speed of silicon germanium chips
- IBM doubles speed of silicon germanium chipsOne hundred *GIGA* Hertz?[i]"The new semiconductors, named 8HP and 8WL, are twice as fast as the previous generation of chips. The previous generation chip ran at 100 GHz, while this new generation of chips will run at a maximum speed of 200 GHz."[/i]I think...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, IBM Corp., chip, microprocessor, processor, PC
- Discussion threads 2005-08-05
- A High Average-Efficiency SiGe HBT Power Amplifier for WCDMA Handset Applications
- 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. A dynamic current biasing technique is developed to improve the average power efficiency for...
- Tags: W-CDMA, Technique, IEEE, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-02-01
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