February 21, 2013 at 5:00AM NXP's silicon fingerprinting promises to annoy the heck out of ID hackers
February 13, 2013 at 11:35PM USC battery wields silicon nanowires to hold triple the energy, charge in 10 minutes
January 25, 2013 at 2:10AM University of Michigan makes silicon from liquid metal, aims for low-cost chips
October 4, 2012 at 5:32AM Fraunhofer black silicon could catch more energy from infrared light, go green with sulfur
September 30, 2012 at 12:15PM New process for nanotube semiconductors could be graphene's ticket to primetime (video)
September 21, 2012 at 12:47AM Researchers create working quantum bit in silicon, pave way for PCs of the future
August 25, 2012 at 12:00AM Harvard makes distortion-free lens from gold and silicon, aims for the perfect image (or signal)
July 10, 2012 at 1:05AM Intel to buy 15 percent of silicon fab equipment maker ASML, wants manufacturing machines made faster
June 27, 2012 at 7:58AM Researchers partially automate CPU core design, aim to fast track new PC processor production
June 8, 2012 at 8:18AM UCSB engineers proteins that make silicon, leads hipsters to insist on organically-grown computers
May 22, 2012 at 8:06PM Engineer Guy shows how a phone accelerometer works, knows what's up and sideways (video)
May 22, 2012 at 3:44PM Scientists use metal and silicon to create invisibility cloak (no, you can't wear it)
May 10, 2012 at 5:54AM Scientists bend gamma rays, could neuter radioactive waste (update: more credit)
May 1, 2012 at 3:34AM Researchers build optical transistor out of silicon, provide path to all-optical computing
January 28, 2012 at 12:34AM IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice
January 16, 2012 at 8:24PM Samsung looks to borrow $1 billion to expand production capacity in Austin, Texas
December 27, 2011 at 2:02AM NTT Docomo, Panasonic, Samsung and more team up to take on Qualcomm over cellphone chips
November 16, 2011 at 5:39AM Researchers increase charging capacity, speed of lithium ion batteries by a factor of ten
November 15, 2011 at 2:13PM MIT unveils computer chip that thinks like the human brain, Skynet just around the corner
November 15, 2011 at 11:08AM Intel 4004, world's first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday, ages gracefully
September 28, 2011 at 7:28AM Ferroelectric transistor memory could run on 99 percent less power than flash
June 21, 2011 at 10:48PM Tilera's new 100-core CPU elbows its way to the cloud, face-melt still included
May 4, 2011 at 1:00PM Intel will mass produce 3D transistors for all future CPUs, starting with 22nm Ivy Bridge (video)
April 29, 2011 at 6:58AM Intel touts 50Gbps interconnect by 2015, will make it work with tablets and smartphones too
April 25, 2011 at 4:23PM Today marks 50th anniversary of first silicon integrated circuit patent (and the entire computing industry)
March 28, 2011 at 6:29AM Silicine might be the new graphene, now that it's been physically constructed
March 25, 2011 at 11:57AM Samsung starts baking 30nm 4Gb LPDDR2 chips, packaging 2GB mobile RAM in April
March 12, 2011 at 8:01PM iPad 2 specs discerned, 900MHz dual-core ARM CPU and PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU blow away graphical benchmarks
February 7, 2011 at 8:53AM Scientists grow nanolasers on silicon chips, prove microscopic blinkenlights are the future
January 19, 2011 at 6:11PM IBM forms new partnership with ARM in hopes of developing ludicrously small chip processing technology
January 6, 2011 at 1:58AM Sculpted Eers fills ears with silicon, molds custom-molded headphones in four minutes flat (ears-on)
December 10, 2010 at 1:05PM Reebok sets sights on flexible computing sportswear, partners with startup team
December 1, 2010 at 10:56PM IBM breakthrough brings us one step closer to exascale computing, even more intense chess opponents
November 18, 2010 at 2:15AM Qualcomm teases 28nm dual-core Snapdragons, pixel-punching Adreno 300 GPU
October 4, 2010 at 12:41PM NC State patents multifunctional smart sensors, looks to 'revolutionize energy and communications infrastructure'
September 30, 2010 at 1:41PM Researchers develop means to reliably read an electron's spin, take us one step closer to the quantum zone
September 14, 2010 at 7:57PM AMD throws down gauntlet, pits Zacate netbook chip against Intel's Core i5 in City of Heroes duel (video)
September 3, 2010 at 9:47AM Silicon oxide forms solid state memory pathways just five nanometers wide
August 31, 2010 at 5:00PM HP Labs teams up with Hynix to manufacture memristors, plans assault on flash memory in 2013
August 2, 2010 at 10:22AM Melting silicon 'in reverse' can help purify it, result in cheaper electronics
July 27, 2010 at 4:48PM Intel's 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link shines a light on future computers (video)
March 7, 2010 at 8:40PM IBM keeps light pulse bandwagon rolling, uses 'em for chip-to-chip communication
March 1, 2010 at 12:59PM Panasonic's silicon-packin' batteries boast 30 percent capacity boost, hit stores in 2012
December 15, 2009 at 10:09AM UCLA nanowire discovery could lead to faster, stronger, smaller electronics
October 26, 2009 at 3:16AM Tilera's 100-core Tile-GX processor won't boil the oceans, will still melt faces
April 23, 2009 at 10:29AM New silicon film ferroelectric may pave the way for instant-on computers (or maybe not)
December 9, 2008 at 1:03PM Intel's opto-electronic 'breakthrough' could save this doomed Internet (or not)