Microprocessor design hit a wall in the first half of this decade with Intel unable to deliver a 4gHz Pentium chip and IBM unable to deliver Apple a 3gHz PowerPC G5 chip or a G5 at any speed suitable ...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials describe a specific class of nanomaterials that are comprised of only one or two atoms thickness 1. Of one of the most popular 2D materials is graphene, which is a ...

TL;DR: Researchers at Peking University developed a silicon-free transistor using bismuth oxyselenide, offering faster electron movement and full gate coverage around the source. This design promises ...

Intel Corp. says it may have solved the problem of balancing the demand for power with excessive heat generation in future microprocessors, a key issue in the semiconductor industry's struggle to ...

Chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) hosted its first-ever Intel Architecture (IA) Day on Dec. 11, 2018. At the event, the chip giant talked about a range of its technologies. Among the technologies ...

The all-optical switch is a disc 250 nm in diameter that is capable of switching optical pulses at femtosecond rates. (Image courtesy of Maxim Scherbakov). Over the last few years, the semiconductor ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In a move to address the power concerns of future microprocessors, Intel Corp. here today announced a new transistor structure that marks the company's initial use of high-k ...

Innovative Intel 45 Nanometer High-k Metal Gate Processors Go Lead-Free; Part of Intel’s Broad Commitment to Environmental Sustainability SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 22, 2007 – Intel Corporation today ...

Each new generation of IC lithography opens up higher performance opportunities, more transistors per unit area, and a higher level of integration. Plus, each generation requires lower operating ...

India has reached an important milestone in developing its own semiconductor technology with the introduction of Dhruv64. This is the country's first microprocessor that operates at 64 bits and has a ...

IBM has slowly and quietly moved off the Mac in the past year. Its G3 processors, which used to live on three-quarters of all Macintoshes, now only ship on iBooks. Motorola’s G4 processor has gone ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. In the future, microprocessors will need a better ...