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32 articles tagged as silicon

Review Thermaltake A500 Aluminum Tempered Glass Edition Review

Thermaltake goes super-premium with its latest ATX case.

18-1-19 // 1:00p.m.

Microsoft pulls back on Cortana efforts

Removes from Search, dodges hardware.

18-1-19 // 12:05p.m.

Google snaps up Fossil smartwatch tech, staff

Only for a singular technology, though.

18-1-19 // 11:29a.m.

Facebook accused of Portal astroturfing

'Neither coordinated nor directed,' says AR/VR VP.

18-1-19 // 11:14a.m.

Researchers boast of air-channel transistor breakthrough

Nothing a suitable replacement for silicon.

20-11-18 // 11:25a.m.

Researchers demo rust-based magnon spintronics

Claim it could lead to terahertz-class processors.

14-9-18 // 11:49a.m.

Researchers point to boron arsenide for cooler electronics

Could replace silicon.

6-7-18 // 10:57a.m.

Baidu announces Kunlun AI chip family

Boasts serious performance.

4-7-18 // 11:23a.m.

TSMC gets green light for China fab plans

On-track for 2018 opening.

3-2-16 // 12:59p.m.

TSMC announces £2 billion Nanking 12" fab plans

Aims for 20K wafers a month by 2018.

8-12-15 // 11:55a.m.

AMD, GlobalFoundries tape out first 14nm FinFET parts

Promises CPUs, GPUs, APUs in 2016.

6-11-15 // 12:06p.m.

IBM shows off first 7nm FinFET chip

Continues work with Samsung, GloFo.

9-7-15 // 11:21a.m.

TSMC, ARM validate big.LITTLE on FinFET silicon

First 64-bit big.LITTLE on 3D transistors.

1-10-14 // 9:11a.m.

Intel admits to Moore's Law hiccough

"It's just getting really hard."

22-11-13 // 10:49a.m.

Shin-Etsu promises longer-life, brighter LEDs

Shin-Etsu Chemical has released a new LED encapsulating material which it claims will lead to brighter and longer-life lighting.

17-2-12 // 1:59p.m.

Shin-Etsu promises longer-life, brighter LEDs

Silicon to improve batteries tenfold

Silicon can be used to create batteries that charge in 15mins and last a week.

16-11-11 // 3:37p.m.

Silicon to improve batteries tenfold

AMD and GlobalFoundries renegotiate 32nm deal

Deal designed to safeguard AMD against 32nm production issues.

5-4-11 // 3:23p.m.

AMD and GlobalFoundries renegotiate 32nm deal

Fixed Sandy Bridge chipset ‘begins shipping’

The B3 fix is reportedly already shipping to motherboard and laptop manufacturers.

18-2-11 // 12:22p.m.

Nvidia showcases quad-core Tegra 3 silicon

Nvidia gives birth to a mobile monster.

16-2-11 // 2:20p.m.

Intel resumes shipping of faulty Sandy Bridge chipsets

Intel gives certain PC makers the go-ahead to keep using its faulty 6-series chipsets.

8-2-11 // 12:17p.m.

Intel to fund silicon photonics centre

Intel has entered into a partnership to co-fund a silicon photonics research and production centre.

2-2-11 // 12:13p.m.

IBM: Graphene as it is won't replace silicon in CPUs

Graphene can't fully replace silicon inside CPUs, but it could be used in hybrid chips.

21-1-11 // 6:19p.m.

Researchers create chip-shrinking tech

Researchers at Rice University have discovered a method for shrinking chips using silicon oxide.

1-9-10 // 9:24a.m.

Review How to Make a CPU: From Sand to Shelf

We take a look at how Intel crams so much whizz-bang in such a small space

10-6-10 // 11:06a.m.

AMD shows its Fusion APU (then hides it)

Get DX11 gaming on your thin and light laptop, as AMD shows its new Fusion CPUs for the first time.

3-6-10 // 4:29p.m.

First SATA 6Gbps chipset is likely bottlenecked

COMPUTEX 09: EVGA claims it'll continue testing SATA 6Gbps and won't use it until it knows it's worthwhile.

4-6-09 // 1:34p.m.

Worldwide semiconductor sales fall by 30.4 percent

The Semiconductor Industry Association reveals a sharp fall in the revenue from sales of semiconductors over the last few months.

6-4-09 // 2:53p.m.

Forget light, carbon is the new silicon

Yes, you guessed it: another possible future processor technology. This time it's the stuff in pencils rather than the stuff that comes out of torches that'll save us all.

21-12-07 // 12:16p.m.

Forget light, carbon is the new silicon

Intel demonstrates first working 32nm chip

IDF FALL 07: Otellini showed off the world's first working 32nm chip and says Intel is on track for volume production to start in 2009.

18-9-07 // 6:56p.m.

Intel demonstrates first working 32nm chip

Intel has world’s fastest Si-Ge Photo detector

IDF FALL 07: Intel has developed a silicon- and germanium-based photo detector that can detect laser light signals at over 40Gbit/sec.

18-9-07 // 2:00a.m.

Intel has world’s fastest Si-Ge Photo detector

Silicon Knights files lawsuit against Epic Games

Mark Rein, VP at Epic Games has revealed that Silicon Knights has filed a lawsuit against the Unreal Engine 3 creator.

20-7-07 // 2:17p.m.

IBM goes Eau Naturelle

IBM has turned to nature for the newest methods for creating its chips -- and the results may be the closest to perfection yet.

4-5-07 // 4:33p.m.

AMD heading to 45nm in 2008

AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has already started talking about his company's move to a 45 nanometre manufacturing process.

4-5-07 // 10:09a.m.

360 & PS3 have equal power?

David Dyak of Silicon Knights has made some interesting comments about the next-generation console war. Namely: will the PS3 actually be more powerful than the 360? He thinks not.

1-11-06 // 10:58a.m.