AZoNano

Nanoprocessors: Scaling Beyond CMOS Limits Using Nanotechnology

Moore's Law states that the density of transistors on a chip will increase exponentially - doubling in performance every two years. The computing industry has managed to adhere to this law since it ...
Hexus

AMD announces world's fastest Cmos Transistor

make use of 300-mm wafers. "Our ongoing research allows us to stay on the forefront of transistor design, which translates into increasingly powerful processors. Transistor technology is the 'engine' ...
AZoNano

Direct-Write Fabrication of 1D Transistors and Non-CMOS Logic Gates: A Stimulus for Nanoelectronics to Mature

The transistor, an invention that heralded a new era in electronics, is the key component of practically all integrated circuits (ICs) and microprocessors. The point-contact transistor that Walter H.
NextBigFuture

Intel surrounding CMOS with new device architectures using new materials such as magnetic memories, Qubits, GaN transistors

Keynote speaker, IEEE Fellow Kevin Zhang, vice president of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, also Intel Director of Circuit Technology who led processor development from the 90-to-22 ...
Hexus

Intel reveals detail on "tri-gate" transistor and CMOS Radio technology

June 12, 2003 - Intel Corporation revealed new details of its advanced “tri-gate” transistor design this week at the 2003 Symposia of VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan and said that the tri ...
Science Daily

Transistors repurposed as microchip 'clock' address supply chain weakness

A new technique uses standard chip fab methods to fabricate the building block of a timing device, critical to all microprocessors. Currently, this timing device, known as an acoustic resonator, must ...
AZOM

How do Semiconductors Contribute to the Development of Microprocessors and Microcontrollers?

What are Microprocessors and Microcontrollers? Microprocessors and microcontrollers are essential components of an embedded system. These are single-chip processors that accelerate the computing ...
Nature

Academic and industry research progress in germanium nanodevices

Gordon Moore's visionary prediction, made in 1965, that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit chip would double every two years continues to be the main idea guiding the semiconductor ...
EurekAlert!

CU, MIT breakthrough in photonics could allow for faster and faster electronics

A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Micron Technology Inc. could allow for the ...
Electronic Design

How Deeply Depleted Channel Transistors Work

SuVolta has revealed a bit more about their Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) low power, CMOS transistor technology designed for embedded SoCs (System-on-chip). SuVolta's PowerShrink transistor (see DDC ...
New Scientist

Hybrid transistor to speed wireless computing

A hybrid transistor design that could mean faster and far less power-hungry wireless devices has been unveiled by researchers from IBM. Ghavam Shahidi and colleagues from IBM’s Watson Research Centre ...