Intel will make the largest-ever investment by a foreign firm in Israel, in exchange for tax concessions and a government grant. The purpose, reportedly, is to build manufacturing capacity for next-generation chips.…
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Carbon nanotubes move closer to competing with silicon
In a step toward post-silicon electronics, a Stanford team has created stable carbon nanotube transistors that are as small as the best silicon transistors.…
Read MoreThe DOE’s early stage program to award $27M for 14 efficient grid electronics projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program — which allocates small grants to early stage, high risk technologies — has launched a…
Read MoreAt Stanford, carbon nanotubes are the computer
Carbon nanotubes can be used to create smaller transistors, leading to more powerful and efficient computers.…
Read MoreHow mobility is stressing the chip industry
Qualcomm can't find enough capacity to manufacture chips designed for mobile phones. These troubles will become more common as the physics that govern how we make semiconductors buckles under the demands of our increasingly mobile lives, where we demand low power and high performance.…
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Intel announced new chips yesterday, incorporating a new three-dimensional manufacturing process to fit more processing capability into a smaller space whilst consuming…
Read MoreHow Low Power Chips Can Beat Back Vampire Power
IBM thinks that tunnel field-effect transistors could cut transistor power use by tenfold and virtually eliminate vampire power, and it's working with European researchers to bring the idea from lab to market in six to 10 years.…
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