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- The cost of solar cells [video]
- At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...
- Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Video, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- The cost of creating solar cells
- At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...
- Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, solar, energy, cells, silicon, polysilicon, silicon wafers, green, enviromental
- Videos 2008-12-04
- Silicon wafer area shipments up 8% in 2007
- Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 8% in 2007 when compared to 2006 area shipments, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group. Revenues grew by 21% in 2007 compared to 2006, as a result of 300 mm contributing to an overall better product mix. Silicon wafer area shipments in...
- Tags: Silicon Wafer, Area Shipment, Semiconductors, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Silicon wafer area shipments up 6% in 2005
- Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 6% in 2005 when compared to 2004 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group SMG. Revenues also grew by 8% in 2005 compared to 2004. Silicon wafer area shipments in 2005 totaled 6,645 mln square inches MSI, up from the 6,262...
- Tags: area shipment
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- 1.5 bln square inches of silicon wafers shipped in Q4 2004
- Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments hit 1,486 mln square inches in Q4 2004, down 9% from Q3 2004 but up 7% from Q4 2003, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group. Silicon wafer area shipments totaled 6,262 mln square inches in 2004, up 22% from the 5,149 mln square inches...
- Tags: mln square inch, silicon wafer
- Blog posts 2005-02-23
- 1.5 bln square inches of silicon wafers shipped in Q4 2004
- Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments hit 1,486 mln square inches in Q4 2004, down 9% from Q3 2004 but up 7% from Q4 2003, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group. Silicon wafer area shipments totaled 6,262 mln square inches in 2004, up 22% from the 5,149 mln square inches...
- Tags: silicon wafer, mln square inch
- Blog posts 2005-02-23
- Silicon wafer area shipments up 25% in Q3 2004
- Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in Q3 2004 increased 1% sequentially and 25% YTY according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group. Silicon wafer area shipments totaled 1,629 mln square inches during the most recent quarter compared to the 1,619 mln square inches in shipments reported during Q2 2004. Silicon revenues...
- Tags: silicon wafer, area shipment
- Blog posts 2004-11-05
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- Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists
- Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Intel shows off new 22-nanometer wafer
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows off a silicon wafer housing chips made with 22-nanometer process technology. Chips made on that process will be ready for market in 2011.
- Tags: Wafer, Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Intel
- Videos 2009-09-22
- Green shoots
- I would not hazard a guess about what's happening to the storied "green shoots" in the American or global economies. There are many economists and financial "experts" hazarding widely divergent guesses already. I will guess that green technology continues to have appeal in many nations. Green shoots...
- Tags: Brazil, Spain, Hydrogen, SWITZERLAND SOLAR Solar Panel Production, Oerlikon Solar, Spanish Project, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers
- Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they'll help overcome many of the limitations of today's microelectronics...
- Tags: Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Computer, Chip, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created
- AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD's advanced processors. The new company--currently known as "The Foundry Company"--will take over all of AMD's existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and...
- Tags: Asset, Foundry Networks Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Government, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- What memory technology is Samsung after?
- Samsung Electronics recently made public its $5.8 billion offer for SanDisk, a major manufacturer of memory cards. There are plenty of possible business motives behind this bid including the hefty royalties that Samsung pays to SanDisk to use its flash technology, and SanDisk's strong retail brands and distribution. But I'll...
- Tags: 3D, NAND Flash, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NAND, Technology, Toshiba Corp., Cell, Chip, Flash Memory, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip
- One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...
- Tags: Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Menlow, Moorestown, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The news on Intel's Nehalem; chips with integrated GPUs up next
- Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum this week, was expected. Nehalem isn't a single product, but a family of...
- Tags: Core, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- IBM to cool chips with H20
- Much like a Porsche boxer engine -- only much, much smaller -- scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micro pipes of water to cool itself, IBM announced this morning. The chip's components are...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- IBM cools chips with 'tiny rivers' of H2O; Aims to stretch Moore's Law
- IBM Labs is taking water cooling to another level--and pumping water into each layer of a semiconductor via pipes as thin as a human hair. On Thursday, IBM said that its researchers--along with Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin--demonstrated a prototype that integrates a water cooling system direction into...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Chip, IBM Labs, Water Pipe, Semiconductors, Data Centers, Network Technology, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Via finally releases new Nano processor
- Early this morning Via Technologies finally announced is new Nano processor, better-known by its code name, Isaiah. The Nano will deliver two to three times the performance of the current C7 with roughly the same power requirements, according to the company. Via has spent years working on...
- Tags: VIA Technologies Inc., Watt, Nano, C7, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU
- More details on Nvidia's new GTX 200 series GPUs, which are set to launch sometime next month, courtesy of the site TGDaily. The new chip will reportedly be massive, measuring 576 square millimeters, due to the increased number of processing units and a 512-bit memory controller. All...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Series, Chip, GPU, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Decoding AMD's 45nm processor announcement
- After a dismal 2007, AMD is trying to regain its footing. The company made several technology announcements at a computer tradeshow in Hannover, Germany last week--including progress on 45nm processors. But it remains to be seen whether AMD can deliver on all of this, and be more competitive in 2008....
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Penryn, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
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