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- Transistor
- In the analog world of continuously varying signals, a transistor is a device used to amplify voltage or current or sometimes function as an on/off switch. In the binary...
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- Energy-efficient transistors
- Energy-efficient transistorsamd pwns shitelwow ooooo great now fucking shity ass intel is stealing amd's 45nm! u asshole just like ur giong to steal ther true quads u fucking cock sukers!
- Tags: Semiconductors, Energy-Efficient, transistor
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Inside Intel's Penryn Processor
- On Monday Intel announced the first mobile quad-core processor called Penryn. The new silicon is the cousin to the Penryn desktop processor, the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, announced on 12 November 2007. The next generation transistors, used in the new Penryn processors (Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel...
- Tags: Silicon, Transistor, Apple MacBook, Intel Corp., Apple MacBook Pro, Penryn Desktop Processor, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Premier IT Magazine: Reinvented transistors
- 45-nm Manufacturing Creating the Next Wave of Quad-Core Processors
- Tags: Information Technology, Transistor, Intel Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Graphene-based transistors on the way?
- The idea of replacing silicon with carbon to make computer chips is not new. However, using graphene -- a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice -- wasn't feasible because it is not possible today to make wafers as big as ones made from silicon. But two...
- Tags: Technique, Researcher, Stamp, Transistor, Semiconductors, Productivity, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Celebrating 60 years of transistors
- Celebrating 60 years of transistorsand then they invented the 3d transistorthis will probably push that date back another hundred years or so...[u]http://www.news.com/Intel-unfurls-experimental-3D-transistors/2100-1001_3-958149.html[/u]RE: Celebrating 60 years of transistorsAccording to the headline, reminding people of this history is a great thing to celebrate, except that hardly anyone understands what it is all...
- Tags: Semiconductors, transistor
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- Photos: The transistor turns 60
- From a few small pieces of metal at Bell Labs, an entire industry--to say nothing of a vast swath of modern life--was born. by CNET News.com
- Tags: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Transistor, Photograph, Semiconductors, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-14
- News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme. VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier? David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Tablet PC, Transistor, NetSuite Inc., Microsoft Office Live, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Tablet, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- The transistor turns 60
- The transistor turns 60PictureI remeber using one of those. We had it as a "hot" phone for weekend support. The battery life was about an hour.
- Tags: Semiconductors, transistor
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- The transistor turns 60
- On Dec. 16, the transistor turns 60 and Intel is planning to trumpet the event. Over the weekend, I culled together a few thoughts based on Intel's timeline, Moore's law and other transistor moments and put them into a gallery. Here's the gallery. The picture below...
- Tags: Transistor, Semiconductors, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Images: Happy 60th birthday transistor
- The transistor turns 60. Here's a look at some key milestones. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Transistor, Semiconductors, Intel, Computing, Memory, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Image galleries 2007-12-09
- Carbon Nanotube Bumps for Thermal and Electric Conduction in transistor
- The continuous miniaturization of semiconductor chips has rapidly improved the performance of semiconductor products. However, thermal issues that affect semi- conductor chips are becoming more serious. For example, heat transfer has become a very serious problem in the CPUs of personal computers; high-frequency High-Power Amplifiers HPAs of mobile communication systems;...
- Tags: Nanotube, Mobile, Transistor, Carbon Nanotube, Fujitsu Ltd., Mobile Communication, Nanotechnology, Cellular Phones, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- A one-atom thick billiard table
- A team of physicists at the University of California at Riverside UCR have found that graphene, which was isolated experimentally only less than three years ago, and which is a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings, can act as an atomic-scale billiard table. They found that...
- Tags: Electron, Quantum, Transistor, Electronics, Carbon Atom, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- Optimizing chip manufacturing at MIT
- According to MIT researchers, computer chips used inside high-speed communication devices have become so small that tiny variations that appear during chip fabrication can make a big difference in performance.' So they've developed a model to predict variation in circuit performance and maximize the number of chips working within the...
- Tags: Transistor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Variation, Chip, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-19
- Energy-efficient transistors
- Rob Willoner, a technology analyst at Intel, explains how smaller and more energy-efficient transistors are resulting in faster and more powerful CPUs.
- Tags: Transistor, Semiconductors, Hardware, Computer Hardware
- Whiteboards 2007-08-10
- 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
- Reading the Times - about Intel
- As regular readers know, Im both fascinated and frustrated by the extent to which the main stream press misinforms our bosses -the non technical people who ultimately make most of the strategic technology decisions in the organizations we work for. The media reaction to last weeks announcements from...
- Tags: Intel Corp., transistor
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- (Images: New recipe for Intel transistors)
- (Images: New recipe for Intel transistors)INTEL IS A JPEG IN MY COMPUTERI think that the trend for computers will be digital.
- Tags: Semiconductors, PRODUCTIVITY, Intel Corp., transistor
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- What Intel's 45nm chips mean to you
- Intels forthcoming 45nm processor manufacturing process has metal inside. The chipmaker, for the first time, will substitute certain materials that it—along with the whole industry, in fact—has been using since the 1960s to make transistors. The work at this most basic level of semiconductor design and manufacturing is necessary to...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., transistor, Penryn Chip
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Images: New recipe for Intel transistors
- Intel has decided to use new materials to build transistors on chips that will arrive in the second half of this year.
- Tags: recipe, Intel Corp., chip, transistor
- Image galleries 2007-01-26
- High-performance flexible organic transistors
- Organic -- or carbon-based -- transistors are not new and can be used to design flexible computer displays, RFID tags and sensors. However, these organic single crystals could not be mass-produced because they needed to be individually handpicked. But now, researchers at Stanford University and the University of California-Los Angeles...
- Tags: Semiconductors, high-performance, transistor, Stanford University
- Blog posts 2006-12-17
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