Silicon offsetting - the new green saviour?
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IT's positive environmental impact IT, on the face of it, is not very sustainable. New products are introduced in rapid development cycles that encourage wasteful frequent upgrade and replacement.â¦
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IBM says it has found the answer: New technology that squeezes more memory onto a slice of silicon. By the Associated Press.
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IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have announced that they have produced a silicon chip with a marked improvement in speed by using strained silicon technology.
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A new faster version &#39;strained silicon&#39; has been developed by IBM and AMD. The companies are claiming that the resulting transistors are up to 24 per cent faster than existing processes.
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As newspaper readers, you are probably becoming familiar with the term "offsets." Environmentalists, loath to add noxious carbon gases into the atmosphere, offset their fossil fuel consumption by investing in renewable energy sources.
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Chip maker likely is making way for new products.
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Someday, your silicon solar panels may not have to be purebloods if CaliSolar can perfect how it isolates impurities.
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Solar-wafer maker allays investor concerns of rising costs.
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In an advance that could lead to lighter spacecraft and smarter cars, researchers have developed a new technique for producing a high-quality semiconductor that's much more resistant to extreme conditions than the silicon found in most of today's electronics.
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New nonsilicon transistors could be integrated into existing chip-making processes.
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Chip power has increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to new multicore processors from Intel, AMD and other chip makers. The problem is, software developers who understand how to utilize the new hardware are in short supply.
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The firm is planning new ways to shrink transistors and increase chip speed. Could "spintronics" replace silicon-based technology?
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The upstart chipmaker is still on the right path.
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Nanotube transistors coated with light-sensitive polymers could replace today's digital camera technology
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It looks like a partnership between AMD, IBM, Sony and Toshiba has produced a new technology which allows faster transistor speeds with the same energy consumption.
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Wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminium film heralded as 'a revolution' by British scientists
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By Anonymous  Membranes Cater to Chipmakers' Nanometer Requirements  As the semiconductor industry moves to narrower linewidths. the demand heightens for filtration products that capture smaller fluid contaminants in the nanometer range.