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'Perfect storm': phones, consoles could get pricier as chip crisis bites
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
In the months after the pandemic hit, people stuck at home went on a spending spree to buy items including extra monitors, new computers and tablets -- each of ...
Solution to puzzling phenomenon may open door to improved Cold Spray efficiency
Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)
The discovery may ultimately improve the efficiency of the "Cold Spray" (CS) deposition process from which these structures are formed - a not-insignificant con...
General Motors lengthens plant shutdowns amid chip shortage
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
The move extends the temporary closures the auto giant announced last week for factories in the US state of Kansas, the Canadian province of Ontario and the Mex...
Scientists optimized technology for production of optical materials for microelectronics
Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers have managed to reduce significantly the initial nanopowders consolidation period (10 - 100 times) forming a nanostructure with ensured high opt...
Liquid machine-learning system adapts to changing conditions
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
"This is a way forward for the future of robot control, natural language processing, video processing - any form of time series data processing," says Ramin Has...
Embattled Intel says earnings better than expected
Jan 22, 2021 (AFP)
Intel said it took in $20 billion in revenue during the final quarter of last year, little changed from a year earlier, amid robust sales of personal computers....
Transforming quantum computing's promise into practice
Jan 21, 2021 (SPX)
But once in school, first at State University of New York at Fredonia then the University of Rochester, he hardly shied away from a challenge. "I was studying s...
ASML earnings up despite pandemic
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
The company makes the systems used by the semiconductor industry to manufacture the chips that go into products from mobile phones to cars, and it is seen as a ...
The changing paradigm of next-generation semiconductor memory development
Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)
Conventional memory devices are classified into volatile memories, such as RAM, that can read and write data quickly, and non-volatile memories, such as hard-di...
Light-based processors boost machine-learning processing
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
Now, an international team of scientists has turned to light to tackle the problem. The researchers developed a new approach and architecture that combines proc...
A high order for a low dimension
Jan 05, 2021 (SPX)
To create spintronic devices, new materials need to be designed that take advantage of quantum behaviors not seen in everyday life. You are probably familiar wi...
Mollenkopf to step down as CEO of chip giant Qualcomm
Jan 05, 2021 (AFP)
The California tech firm said Cristiano Amon, 50, currently president, would succeed Mollenkopf as CEO, effective June 30. Mollenkopf, 52, became CEO in March o...
Extremely energy efficient microprocessor developed using superconductors
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
As today's technologies become more and more integrated in our daily lives, the need for more computational power is ever increasing. Because of this increase, ...
US blacklists Chinese companies including chip giant SMIC
Dec 18, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement in the final weeks of President Donald Trump's term comes after relations between Washington and Beijing soured under his administration, which...
An LED that can be integrated directly into computer chips
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
Smartphones, for example, can use an LED proximity sensor to determine if you're holding the phone next to your face (in which case the screen turns off). The L...
Energy-efficient magnetic RAM: A new building block for spintronic technologies
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
In modern computers, the random access memory (RAM) is used to store information. The SOT-MRAM (spin-orbit torque magnetic RAM) is one of the leading candidates...
Atom-thin transistor uses half the voltage of common semiconductors, boosts current density
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
As described in a paper accepted at the 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, which is taking place virtually next week, the transistor requires hal...
Discovery suggests new promise for nonsilicon computer transistors
Dec 10, 2020 (SPX)
MIT researchers have found that an alloy called InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) could hold the potential for smaller and more energy efficient transistors. Pre...
Computer developed in China achieves 'quantum supremacy'
Dec 04, 2020 (UPI)
Quantum supremacy is achieved when a quantum computer can best the performance of a supercomputer at just one task. "Quantum computational advantage is like a t...
DARPA looks to light up integrated photonics with chip-scale laser development
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
However, due to differences in the properties of the materials that compose them, lasers and PICs are difficult to combine onto the same platform, limiting the ...
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