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Recent stories in tech seem to center around a widening of the gap between successful and unsuccessful companies. Nowhere is this story more... Read More »
A group at the Nanyang Technological Institute has demonstrated new wireless technology capable of transmitting data 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth -- nearly 2... Read More »
The process of building computer chips over the past several decades has been driven by a focus on Moore’s Law, which calls for improving the speed and number... Read More »
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Leonard PrietSeems to me this is just a question of managing uncertainties -- isn't that something that we do in science all the time?
May 23, 2012
In the wake of Samsung's Exynos quad-core processors, now powering their increasingly successful line of Galaxy smartphones, the semiconductor leader has started... Read More »
A new study has found that small bumps have an unexpectedly large effect on the paths that electrons follow on the semiconductor gallium arsenide. This nano-effect is ... Read More »
Twenty-eight proves tough-for-business...
Ever since late last year when we heard about difficulties foundries were having with the latest-and-greatest (and... Read More »
Gallium Nitride (GaN) has recently been touted as a highly effectively replacement for silicon in high power transistor applications, but overheating of these devices ... Read More »
The Power Conversion -- Intelligent Motion (PCIM) conference kicks off today in Nuremburg, Germany, and touts record-setting attendance for a power electronics... Read More »
Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP) has executed substantial moves in the semiconductors industry over the past few weeks, most recently with their $939 million... Read More »
Today semiconductor and microchip manufacturer Microchip Technologies announced that it will purchase its smaller rival Standard Microsystems Corp., reports Reuters... Read More »
Photonics is a class of devices analogous to our current electronics except using photons of light instead of electrons. In photonics, light serves as the... Read More »
The impending scarcity of many valuable resources on our planet has had people searching for and utilizing other energy sources. Although researchers have studied and ... Read More »
Conducting organic molecules allow for the creation of flexible electronic devices such as soar cells and thin-film transistors. The problem is that the wiring... Read More »
Today Samsung announced the release of the industry's first 32nm quad-core computer processor based on High-k Metal Gate technology. The processor will power... Read More »
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum... Read More »
A research team led by Andrei Kholkin of the University of Aveiro, Portugal found ferroelectric properties in the amino acid glycine. The team used a combination ... Read More »
Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have developed a technique for encapsulating liquids of... Read More »
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the first evidence that... Read More »
Forests of carbon nanotubes are an efficient alternative for platinum electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC), according to new research by collaborators at... Read More »
TriQuint has signed a new R&D agreement with the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to explore and fabricate high-frequency, mixed-signal circuits for... Read More »