Latest Integrated circuit Stories

Integrated circuits, which enable virtually every electronics gadget you use on a daily basis, are constantly being pushed by the semiconductor industry to become smaller, faster, and cheaper. As has happened many times in the past and will continue in the future, integrated circuit scaling is perpetually in danger of hitting a wall that must be maneuvered around.According to Maxime Darnon, a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, in order to continue increasing the...

COSTA MESA, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Irvine Sensors Corporation (Nasdaq: IRSN) today announced that its EAGLE-10(TM) "blade" product has been verified by third-party testers as being able to sustain up to 10 gigabits per second ("10 Gb/s") operations while running various firmware embodiments of cyber security software. 10 Gb/s is the present speed of the optical connections to the Internet backbone. Irvine Sensors' EAGLE-10 uses the Company's chip-stacking technology to...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The rapid evolution from cell phones to smart phones and mobile computing, use of netbooks, and more powerful personal computers is continuing to drive demand for Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). As DRAM performance can no longer be advanced solely by reducing feature size, integrated circuit manufacturers are now faced with the challenge of integrating materials with extremely high dielectric constants such as Strontium Titanium...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) today announced it has acquired the technology of GTronix, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in programmable and adaptive analog sensory processing technology. GTronix's solutions enhance audio user-interface and voice processing and are well suited for applications where small form factor, low power, low latency and undistorted signals are critical. Its proprietary technology...

AUSTIN, Texas, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Austin Semiconductor LLC today announced plans to expand the capacity of its 12-inch semiconductor fabrication plant in Austin with a $3.6 billion investment. The decision to bring the additional capacity to Austin was based on the company's long-term business requirements. The expanded fabrication plant, one of the largest in the United States, will produce advanced logic devices for Samsung's System LSI business. Currently the Austin plant...

MUNICH, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- INTERSOLAR EUROPE -- National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) and Huber+Suhner AG, a leading global supplier of components and systems for electrical and optical connectivity, are debuting Huber+Suhner's next-generation of solar junction boxes with National Semiconductor's award-winning SolarMagic(TM) technology inside. National's SolarMagic( )power optimizers distribute smart electronics throughout a solar array to maximize the energy harvest of...

Moore's law marches on: In the quest for faster and cheaper computers, scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scale for the first time. Understanding these structures could substantially enhance computer performance and power usage of integrated circuits, say Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Cornell University scientists.To help maintain the ever-increasing power and performance benefits of semiconductors "“ like the speed and memory trend...

The silicon transistors in your computer may be replaced in ten years by transistors based on carbon nanotubes. This is what scientists at the University of Gothenburg are hoping "“ they have developed a method to control the nanotubes during production.Silicon is subject to certain limitations, and industry is looking for a replacement. The electronics industry has net annual sales of over USD 200 billion, and this means that the development is being fuelled by powerful forces.Carbon...

LONDON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of industry leaders throughout the electronics industry today announced the launch of the Hardware Intrinsic Security (HIS) Initiative -- an educational forum dedicated to reduce barriers and advance the adoption of HIS solutions. A new approach is needed to combat counterfeiting, which is a growing problem driving down the average selling price (ASP) of genuine products and accounting for approximately 10 percent of electronics sales today. The HIS...

While the laws of physics weren't made to be broken, sometimes they need revision. A major current law has been rewritten thanks to the three-port transistor laser, developed by Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr. at the University of Illinois.With the transistor laser, researchers can explore the behavior of photons, electrons and semiconductors. The device could shape the future of high-speed signal processing, integrated circuits, optical communications, supercomputing and other...