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austriamicrosystems' (SWX:AMS) business unit Full Service Foundry today announced the availability of its new analog/mixed signal high performance process design kit ("HIT-Kit") for its 0.35um CMOS, High-Voltage CMOS and SiGe-BiCMOS specialty technologies. Based on the latest version of Cadence Virtuoso (registered trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.) custom design platform (IC 6.1 release), the new HIT-Kit significantly improves the time-to-market for highly competitive...
StrataLight Communications, the leader in commercial deployment of 40Gbps optical transmission subsystems, announced today that it has developed a Silicon Germanium (SiGe) chipset for use in its internal 100GE DWDM transponder development. The chip development is enabled by StrataLight's in-house technology expertise in mixed signal ASIC design, high speed RF inter-connect and transponder sub-system integration. The multiplexer chip has been successfully tested at bit rates from 112Gbps to...
SEMATECH experts will present cutting-edge research results on advanced new materials and device structures for continued scaling of semiconductor technologies at the 2008 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits on June 17-19 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii. Researchers at SEMATECH are developing new techniques for extending CMOS logic and memory technologies, and will showcase some of their findings in three papers outlining new materials, processes and concepts and...
Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 graduate's invention could replace one of the most common pieces of technology in the world"”the silicon transistor for high-power and high-temperature electronics.Huang, who comes from humble roots as the son of farmers in rural China, has invented a new transistor that uses a compound...
Jazz Semiconductor®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jazz Technologies™, Inc. (AMEX:JAZ) and an independent wafer foundry focused primarily on specialty CMOS process technologies, today announced the release of its 130nm SiGe BiCMOS technology (SBC13) designed for high speed wireless and optical communications applications. This process combines industry standard 130nm CMOS with 200GHz HBT NPN transistors for high performance RF and millimeter-wave integrated circuits. The...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. plans to introduce on Friday an improvement to a microchip manufacturing process that it says will allow for the production of faster silicon devices for cellular handsets and other communications devices. In a statement released late on Thursday, the world's largest computer company said it would begin offering customers its fourth rendition of a manufacturing technique that adds traces of germanium into chips made of silicon,...
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Germanium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ge and atomic number 32. This is a lustrous, hard, silver-white, metalloid that is chemically similar to tin. Germanium forms a large number of organometallic compounds and is an important semiconductor material used in transistors. Notable characteristics Germanium is a hard, grayish-white element that has a metallic luster and the same crystal structure as diamond. In addition, it is important to note that...
