Silicon: It's worth a billion an acre
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Fashions come and go, but some of the equations in the chip business never change, says Gordon Moore.
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In September, IBM announced that the Blue Gene/L prototype had sustained speeds of 36 trillion calculations per second. Last week, NASA announced that a system built by Silicon Graphics had topped that by sustaining 42 trillion calculations per second.
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The upstart chipmaker is still on the right path.
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Stanford researchers say silicon nanowires could help extend the life of a lithium ion battery for laptops from 4 hours to 40 hours.
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon as the basis for making chips in electronic devices.
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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.    Devices built with the rugged material would not require cooling and other protections that add size, weight and cost to traditional silicon electronics in power systems, jet engines, rockets, wireless transmitters and other equipment exposed to harsh environments...
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AMD and Infineon are to spend â¬170m ($200m) between them to build a nanotech research facility. According to a Bloomberg report, the R&amp;D centre will be located in Dresden, Germany, probably not far from
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Montalvo Systems has a multi-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it.
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Montalvo Systems has a multiple-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it.
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New Japanese research into silicon carbide growth could revolutionise the electronics industry. A team of scientists has developed a method of making near-perfect silicon carbide crystals.
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The chipmaker will post twice the growth of the market average, which will hit $270 billion this year, analysts say.
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This time they mean it For years graphene has proved a cruel temptress for the semiconductor avant garde. The material - a layer of carbon atoms grouped in the ever popular honeycomb lattice - promised major performance gains over silicon. The problem with the stuff, however, has been arranging it in a large enough layer to replicate the 8- to 12-inch circular wafers favored by the major chip makers.â¦
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Ultrasmall technology, revolutionary impact.
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Chip-making technique to fuel AMD64, PowerPC, 'Cell' production
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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 computer chip that is much more resistant to extreme conditions than the silicon found in most of today&#39;s
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The National Science Foundation will fund projects that push computing power beyond silicon.