Summary: Intel 3Q profit inches past estimates
Boston Globe
The technology allows Intel to build more transistors onto a single chip, increasing its performance while lowering the cost of making that chip. In a sign of the massive expense of developing that technology, Intel's smaller rival, Advance...
U.S, Europe drag down chip sales growth
EETimes
Semiconductor sales in Europe increased by 1.7 percent to $3.45 billion compared with the previous month, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
Intel reports profit, issues a warning
Los Angeles Times
Technological advances enable the company to squeeze more transistors onto the same slice of silicon while lowering the expense of making those chips. Intel shares, which fell $1.06, or 6.2%, to $15.93 in the regular session, rose more than...
No nanoelectronics technology can replace CMOS until 2030, says TI exec
EETimes
Fifty years ago, Jack St. Clair Kilby, working for Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas, Texas), invented the integrated circuit. At the SAME Forum, in the Science Technological Park of Sophia Antipolis, South of France, Dennis Buss, chief scient...
Nanotech: The Circuits Blog
CNET News
As transistors shrink, leakage current can increase. For chipmakers, it is crucial to minimize leakage. This is where high-k/metal gates come into play. The technology will be available to alliance partners in the second half of 2009, thoug...
Intel rubbish at making chips, says Ballmer
The Inquirer
MICROSOFT’S CEO , Steve Ballmer yesterday bellowed out some rather uncomplimentary comments about Intel at Technologies to Change Your Business , in London.
Penn State's Center for Nanoscale Science receives $13.2 million NSF grant for materials research
EurekAlert!
( Penn State ) Penn State's Center for Nanoscale Science receives a six-year $13.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue research and educational activities in its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
Read all 'Home theater' posts in The Audiophiliac
CNET News
It's all in the Audiophile Wiki: audio companies, designers, analog, digital, tubes, transistors, reviewers, speakers, amplifiers, turntables, etc. For example, if you're just getting into vinyl, check out the entry for Phono Cartridge: "A ...
API Nanotronics Announces $4.7 Million Order from Leading US Defense Contractor Rockwell Collins
ThomasNet
NEW YORK, NY--(September 02, 2008) - API Nanotronics Corp. (OTCBB: APIO) ("API") (the "Company"), a leading supplier of electronic components and nanotechnology research and development to the defense and communications sectors, today annou...
Cooler Master HAF 932
Overclockers Club
Since the first personal computers were available, technology hasn't stopped evolving. We are now very far from the performance computers from the eighties. With each performance increase achieved, there was also an increase in heat produce...
How your laptop will just keep getting faster
CNN
(PopSci.com) -- Since the invention of the transistor, silicon semiconductors have been king. But now silicon-based transistors are nearing the limit of their potential. Excess heat and manufacturing hurdles are impeding the development of ...
Unidym Licenses Technology for Semiconductor Applications
Centre Daily Times
Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), announced today that it has completed a non-exclusive license for certain intellectual property in its portfolio to one of the world's leaders in ad...
Battery/Charger Simulator is used for testing portable devices.
ThomasNet
Dual-channel Model 2308 Portable Device Battery/Charger Simulator power supply has measurement engine that enables accurate characterization of full power operation and low current sleep modes for quantifying power consumption, which helps ...
Materials science gets $20 million
Daily Princetonian
The new group is working on two aspects of organic electronics: transistors and solar cells. Transistors are the basic building structures of electronic circuitry and, through organic electronics, can be applied to the production of electro...
Plastic electronic newspaper to be launched in Britain next year
Newstrack India
London, Oct 15 (IANS) A British-designed electronic newspaper - made out of plastic and no larger than a table mat - is ... Plastic spin transistors come closer to reality . 'Plastic seaweed' on riverbeds has potential to light up entire to...