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Posts tagged silicon

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February 21, 2013 at 5:00AM

NXP's silicon fingerprinting promises to annoy the heck out of ID hackers

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February 13, 2013 at 11:35PM

USC battery wields silicon nanowires to hold triple the energy, charge in 10 minutes

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January 25, 2013 at 2:10AM

University of Michigan makes silicon from liquid metal, aims for low-cost chips

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October 4, 2012 at 5:32AM

Fraunhofer black silicon could catch more energy from infrared light, go green with sulfur

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September 30, 2012 at 12:15PM

New process for nanotube semiconductors could be graphene's ticket to primetime (video)

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September 21, 2012 at 12:47AM

Researchers create working quantum bit in silicon, pave way for PCs of the future

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August 29, 2012 at 12:32AM

Seed-sized A*STAR antenna could open the door to 20Gbps wireless

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August 27, 2012 at 6:44AM

Acronym-loving Samsung joins Intel and TSMC, buys stake in ASML

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August 25, 2012 at 12:00AM

Harvard makes distortion-free lens from gold and silicon, aims for the perfect image (or signal)

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August 13, 2012 at 10:16AM

ARM and Globalfoundries hammer out deal to promote 20nm mobile chips

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July 10, 2012 at 1:05AM

Intel to buy 15 percent of silicon fab equipment maker ASML, wants manufacturing machines made faster

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June 27, 2012 at 7:58AM

Researchers partially automate CPU core design, aim to fast track new PC processor production

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June 15, 2012 at 2:00PM

Engadget Primed: why nanometers matter (and why they often don't)

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June 8, 2012 at 8:18AM

UCSB engineers proteins that make silicon, leads hipsters to insist on organically-grown computers

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May 22, 2012 at 8:06PM

Engineer Guy shows how a phone accelerometer works, knows what's up and sideways (video)

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May 22, 2012 at 3:44PM

Scientists use metal and silicon to create invisibility cloak (no, you can't wear it)

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May 18, 2012 at 4:47AM

Samsung pushes graphene one step closer to silicon supremacy

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May 15, 2012 at 12:01AM

AMD reveals Trinity specs, claims to beat Intel on price, multimedia, gaming

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May 10, 2012 at 5:54AM

Scientists bend gamma rays, could neuter radioactive waste (update: more credit)

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May 1, 2012 at 3:34AM

Researchers build optical transistor out of silicon, provide path to all-optical computing

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February 9, 2012 at 10:43AM

Intel teaches Haswell the core values of teamwork, optimism

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January 28, 2012 at 12:34AM

IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice

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January 16, 2012 at 8:24PM

Samsung looks to borrow $1 billion to expand production capacity in Austin, Texas

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January 4, 2012 at 12:41PM

Quanta sues AMD, claims it sold defective products

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December 27, 2011 at 2:02AM

NTT Docomo, Panasonic, Samsung and more team up to take on Qualcomm over cellphone chips

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November 25, 2011 at 11:16AM

MIT slinks into a cafe, orders a side of photonic chips on silicon

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November 16, 2011 at 5:39AM

Researchers increase charging capacity, speed of lithium ion batteries by a factor of ten

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November 15, 2011 at 2:13PM

MIT unveils computer chip that thinks like the human brain, Skynet just around the corner

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November 15, 2011 at 11:08AM

Intel 4004, world's first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday, ages gracefully

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September 28, 2011 at 7:28AM

Ferroelectric transistor memory could run on 99 percent less power than flash

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September 26, 2011 at 6:59AM

Julius Blank, chip-making pioneer and Fairchild co-founder, dies at 86

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June 30, 2011 at 1:43PM

Hanako 2 robot acts like a human dental patient, makes us say 'aah' (video)

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June 27, 2011 at 3:59PM

Apple's A6 processor may come courtesy of TSMC, Samsung left to wonder why

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June 21, 2011 at 10:48PM

Tilera's new 100-core CPU elbows its way to the cloud, face-melt still included

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May 28, 2011 at 8:21PM

AMD ships five million Fusion chips, says it's sold out

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May 4, 2011 at 1:00PM

Intel will mass produce 3D transistors for all future CPUs, starting with 22nm Ivy Bridge (video)

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April 29, 2011 at 6:58AM

Intel touts 50Gbps interconnect by 2015, will make it work with tablets and smartphones too

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April 25, 2011 at 4:23PM

Today marks 50th anniversary of first silicon integrated circuit patent (and the entire computing industry)

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March 28, 2011 at 6:29AM

Silicine might be the new graphene, now that it's been physically constructed

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March 25, 2011 at 11:57AM

Samsung starts baking 30nm 4Gb LPDDR2 chips, packaging 2GB mobile RAM in April

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March 12, 2011 at 8:01PM

iPad 2 specs discerned, 900MHz dual-core ARM CPU and PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU blow away graphical benchmarks

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March 11, 2011 at 12:44AM

Bridgelux silicon LED could mean bright future for solid state lighting

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February 7, 2011 at 8:53AM

Scientists grow nanolasers on silicon chips, prove microscopic blinkenlights are the future

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January 25, 2011 at 1:37AM

IBM says graphene won't fully replace silicon in CPUs

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January 19, 2011 at 6:11PM

IBM forms new partnership with ARM in hopes of developing ludicrously small chip processing technology

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January 6, 2011 at 1:58AM

Sculpted Eers fills ears with silicon, molds custom-molded headphones in four minutes flat (ears-on)

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December 10, 2010 at 1:05PM

Reebok sets sights on flexible computing sportswear, partners with startup team

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December 1, 2010 at 10:56PM

IBM breakthrough brings us one step closer to exascale computing, even more intense chess opponents

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November 18, 2010 at 2:15AM

Qualcomm teases 28nm dual-core Snapdragons, pixel-punching Adreno 300 GPU

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October 14, 2010 at 11:03PM

AMD sees a tablet chip in its future, and an end to the core-count wars

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October 4, 2010 at 12:41PM

NC State patents multifunctional smart sensors, looks to 'revolutionize energy and communications infrastructure'

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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

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September 21, 2010 at 5:58AM

Silicon carbide sensors developed for transmitting inside volcanos

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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)

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September 13, 2010 at 7:51PM

Intel's Sandy Bridge, eyes-on

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September 3, 2010 at 9:47AM

Silicon oxide forms solid state memory pathways just five nanometers wide

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August 31, 2010 at 5:00PM

HP Labs teams up with Hynix to manufacture memristors, plans assault on flash memory in 2013

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August 2, 2010 at 10:22AM

Melting silicon 'in reverse' can help purify it, result in cheaper electronics

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July 27, 2010 at 4:48PM

Intel's 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link shines a light on future computers (video)

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July 21, 2010 at 5:02AM

ARM and TSMC team up for tinier 20nm Cortex SOCs

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July 20, 2010 at 8:46AM

Silicon chips get speed boost with a lead start

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April 23, 2010 at 11:12AM

NC State gurus create harder, better, faster, stronger 'smart sensors'

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March 16, 2010 at 4:24PM

Researchers teach liquid to flow uphill, hope to cool future CPUs (video)

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March 7, 2010 at 8:40PM

IBM keeps light pulse bandwagon rolling, uses 'em for chip-to-chip communication

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March 1, 2010 at 12:59PM

Panasonic's silicon-packin' batteries boast 30 percent capacity boost, hit stores in 2012

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December 15, 2009 at 10:09AM

UCLA nanowire discovery could lead to faster, stronger, smaller electronics

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October 26, 2009 at 3:16AM

Tilera's 100-core Tile-GX processor won't boil the oceans, will still melt faces

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May 30, 2009 at 11:52PM

More scientific black magic promises to double Li-ion battery capacity

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April 24, 2009 at 9:29AM

Etymotic hf2 Custom Fit buds bundle ACS' customized ear-mould service

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April 23, 2009 at 10:29AM

New silicon film ferroelectric may pave the way for instant-on computers (or maybe not)

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December 9, 2008 at 1:03PM

Intel's opto-electronic 'breakthrough' could save this doomed Internet (or not)

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November 13, 2008 at 7:28AM

Korean geniuses invent lithium batteries with eight times the juice

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October 27, 2008 at 4:52AM

Flying plasmonic lens system could lead to denser chips / disks

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October 14, 2008 at 7:11AM

Black silicon is poised to improve digital imaging, maybe solar panels

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July 19, 2008 at 11:56PM

Another breakthrough purportedly brings us closer to quantum computing

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