US engineers have developed a technique that replaces silicon with carbon to make next-generation semiconductors. Boffins at Princeton University said that the electronics industry has pushed the capabilities of silicon - the material at the... More...

Nanowires are made with regular crystal structures and uniform electronic properties - a level of predictability is essential for manufacturing high-performance electronics. Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least... More...

Thanks to xStaindx for submitting this article in the BPN...Advanced Micro Devices is combing through the scientific cookbook in its quest to improve its chips. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker is examining how to incorporate a... More...

AMD SAYS IT WILL SHOW OFF a bunch of technical achievements "critical", it reckons, to the creation of next-generation transistors and memory cells at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), that kicked off yesterday... More...

Thanks [AMD]-SimGuy for the heads up. A chip with that many transistors is currently considered unusual. But when Hammer chips emerge in the first half of 2003, processors of that complexity will become increasingly common.... More...

Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up. At a presentation in Japan this week, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker plans to... More...

IBM will announce Monday that the fastest silicon transistors ever made are ready to appear on chips designed to speed up computer networks. The company's Semiconductor Division has combined many of its... More...