As mentioned in a previous post, the Flemish Interuniversity Microelectronics Consortium, IMEC, has decided to include the interests of DRAM and non-volatile memory designers in their 32nm half-pitch ...
Researchers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey have shown that they can change the threshold voltage of organic transistors by exposing them to visible light, making it possible to ...
Kevin Aylesworth is a Senior Program Officer at the National Research Council. Although his job these days revolves around science policy rather than building things in the lab, Aylesworth—an ...
A CPU collector/enthusiast has taken the top off of an Intel 4004 processor and taken pictures of the chip's insides, showing ...
It was late afternoon at a conference for the Institute of Radio Engineers. Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at ...
LONDON — Specialist semiconductor wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) has announced that its Pennsylvania based operation is to take part in the development of carbon-based, radio-frequency ...
1947: John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, with support from colleague William Shockley, demonstrate the transistor at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It's been called the most important ...