Over recent years, the level of miniaturization in the electronics industry has increased considerably, with circuits now being printed in the millions on just a few square centimeters. With these advancements, researchers have also made headway in the field of implantable electronic devices, such as cochlear and ret... |
5 November 2009
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Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that fit on an average microprocessor will double in size every couple of years, and that the trend will at one point reach a limit that will no longer allow it to continue. Engineers are painfully aware of the fact that semiconductors such as silicon will eventu... |
17 October 2009
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There is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind that the future of electronics will be entirely based on nanostructures, from wires to switches. Carbon nanotubes are one possible line of development, but their silicon-based counterparts are not far behind, as evidenced by the research conducted by IBM expert F... |
1 September 2009
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Microprocessor architects have hoped for a long time that a day will come when molecule-sized electronic components will become readily available and fit for implementation in next-gen devices. Scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently developed a new, small-scale “s... |
28 August 2009
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Over recent years, designing the best possible chip architecture – forcing as many transistors and connections on an ever-smaller microchip in an optimum manner – has become so complex, that many designers have simply outsourced their job to supercomputers. The machines browse through billions of arrangem... |
29 July 2009
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For the first time ever, researchers from the Yale University have demonstrated a solid-state quantum processor, made of a two-qubit superconducting chip. The team behind the accomplishment also managed to run a few basic operations on the machine, such as a search query. Their work takes a major step forward in crea... |
29 June 2009
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Intel Corporation, the largest chip manufacturer in the world, officially announced the launch of its latest generation central processing unit, dubbed Core i7, stating that this is the most advanced processor the company had ever unveiled. The Intel Core i7 family of processors is based on the next-generation Nehale... |
18 November 2008
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The latest reports on the world's leading chip manufacturer Intel have it that it is planning to extend the life-cycle of its socket 775-based processors until 2011. Moreover, the Santa Clara-based company is expected to have these chips on the market for the entry-level segment, reports news site Digitimes, cit... |
17 November 2008
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It seems that The Foundry Company (the manufacturing firm AMD has recently announced to spin off its fabs into) will be able to move towards the 32-nanometer fabrication process while still using Silicon on insulator. Previous news on the Web stated that the company would drop SOI when moving to a smaller die, but it... |
16 October 2008
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Intel's next-generation Nehalem processors, officially known as the Core i7 series, will hit the market only a few weeks from now, in November. The giant chip maker is expected to offer a nice performance boost over today's CPUs with the new launch, and there are a lot of enthusiasts that can hardly wait to... |
14 October 2008
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Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) have experienced a low penetration of the market until now, yet future projections place them among some of the most popular products. Given this forecast, industry players like Intel or VIA are working on the development of microprocessors and platforms fit for these devices. Besides t... |
2 October 2008
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The latest advances in the microprocessors industry have allowed manufacturers to design and produce chips that feature more than one core. In terms of power efficiency and processing power, this step marks the end of single-core CPUs and permits IT makers to reach new levels of performance and speed. The benefits of... |
29 September 2008
06:24 GMT |
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The first models of Intel's ready-to-come Nehalems processors, or Core i7, as the company announced their brand name would be, are expected to hit the market this October. The new Intel chips were reported to range from two to eight cores, and they would also come with a triple channel DDR3 memory controller wit... |
5 September 2008
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The first quarter of 2008 revenue numbers show, according to technology research firm iSuppli, that Advanced Micro Device's announced steady revival has already begun. While its archrival Intel managed to score one point of microprocessor market share over Q4 2007, AMD made it grow by two percent compared to las... |
2 July 2008
06:55 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices held all the details regarding its "asset-smart" strategy to itself and did not present any of its concrete decisions regarding the future of the company at the annual meeting with its shareholders. The only thing that the company unveiled is that it plans to focus only on core businesses and t... |
10 May 2008
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