CHIP TECH

News About Semiconductor Technology

2,573 articles

Qualcomm ends tie-up with Dutch-based NXP amid US-China friction
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
The deal was called off after antitrust authorities in China failed to approve the merger after a two-year wait. The decision ends the tie-up aimed at creating ...
Qualcomm drops $43 bn bid for Dutch chip rival NXP
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
"Qualcomm River Holdings has terminated its previously announced cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of NXP," the company said in a state...
Generation of random numbers by measuring phase fluctuations from a laser diode
Jul 26, 2018 (SPX)
"While part of the control electronics is not integrated yet, the device we designed integrates all the required optical components on one chip," said first aut...
Electrical contact to molecules in semiconductor structures established for the first time
Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)
To further develop semiconductor technology, the field of molecular electronics is seeking to manufacture circuit components from individual molecules instead o...
Research Teams Selected to Lower Barriers to Modern System-on-Chip Design Announced
Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)
This technological feat requires large teams and complex software. As a result, the cost of circuit design continues to skyrocket, narrowing the competitive fie...
Research Teams Selected to Uncover Novel Materials and Approaches to Circuit Integration
Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)
Finding ways of combining these dissimilar blocks, which often are composed of different materials and are comprised of different types of circuitry, into large...
Ytterbium: The quantum memory of tomorrow
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in partnership with CNRS, France, have discovered a new material in which an element, ytterbium, c...
Scientists unlock signal frequency control of precision atom qubits
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) at UNSW Sydney have successfully implemented an...
Semiconductor quantum transistor points to photon-based computing
Jul 17, 2018 (SPX)
Quantum computers will need analogous hardware to manipulate quantum information. But the design constraints for this new technology are stringent, and today's ...
Quantum dot white LEDs achieve record efficiency
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
"Efficient LEDs have strong potential for saving energy and protecting the environment," said research leader Sedat Nizamoglu, Koc University, Turkey. "Replacin...
A step closer to single-atom data storage
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
One of these are single-atom magnets: storage devices consisting of individual atoms stuck ("adsorbed") on a surface, each atom able to store a single bit of da...
Closing the gap: On the road to terahertz electronics
Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)
Classical electronics allows frequencies up to around 100 gigahertz. Optoelectronics uses electromagnetic phenomena starting at 10 terahertz. This range in betw...
US hits Chinese firm Sinovel with $1.5 mn fine for stealing technology
Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)
The decision comes on the day Washington unleashed 25 percent import tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese products to punish the country for what President Donald ...
Scientists pump up chances for quantum computing
Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)
An international team has developed a ground-breaking single-electron "pump". The electron pump device developed by the researchers can produce one billion elec...
Ultimate precision for sensor technology using qubits and machine learning
Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)
A well-established rule of thumb is the so-called standard quantum limit: the precision of the measurement scales inversely with the square root of available re...
China court 'bans sales' of chips from US firm Micron
Jul 04, 2018 (AFP)
According to the state-owned Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co, a court in the southeastern city of Fuzhou has ruled that Micron must stop sales of more than ...
Silicon provides means to control quantum bits for faster algorithms
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
A silicon quantum computer chip has the potential to hold millions of quantum bits, or qubits, for much faster information processing than with the bits of toda...
This is what a stretchy circuit looks like
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
"These are the first flexible electronics that are at once highly conductive and stretchable, fully biocompatible, and able to be fabricated conveniently across...
Rare element to provide better material for high-speed electronics
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
The discovery adds to a list of extremely thin, two-dimensional materials that engineers have tried to use for improving the operation speed of a chip's transis...
The right squeeze for quantum computing
Jun 25, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists at Hokkaido University and Kyoto University have developed a theoretical approach to quantum computing that is 10 billion times more tolerant to erro...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.