Current Headlines

  1. Computer Scientists Leverage Dark Silicon To Improve Smartphone Battery Life
    9/2/2010
    A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon" – the underused transistors in modern microprocessors.
  2. Silicon Oxide Circuits Break Barrier
    9/1/2010
    Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, in a way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic manufacturing techniques and promises to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore's Law.
  3. WIN Semiconductors And Presto Engineering Announce A Strategic Collaboration For GaAs Testing Services
    9/1/2010
    WIN Semiconductors Corp., the world's largest pure-play Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) foundry, and Presto Engineering, a leading semiconductor product engineering company, today announced a strategic collaboration to deliver characterization and testing services for companies developing products utilizing GaAs technology from WIN.
  4. Renowned Semiconductor Industry Veterans Launch Boston Semi Equipment Group
    8/31/2010
    Designed to deliver a unique combination of equipment expertise and innovative financial solutions to the semiconductor industry, senior semiconductor industry veterans Douglas Elder, Bryan Banish, Colin Scholefield and Sandy Garrett recently announced the launch of Boston Semi Equipment Group, LLC (BSE Group)
  5. Cree Demonstrates High Quality 150-mm Silicon Carbide Substrates
    8/30/2010
    Cree, Inc., announced today that it has achieved a major breakthrough in the development and wide scale commercialization of silicon carbide (SiC) technology with the demonstration of high quality, 150-mm SiC substrates with micropipe densities of less than 10/cm2.
  6. Prediction Of Intrinsic Magnetism At Silicon Surfaces Could Lead To Single-Spin Magnetoelectronics
    8/26/2010
    The integration of single-spin magnetoelectronics into standard silicon technology may soon be possible, if experiments confirm a new theoretical prediction by physicists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  7. Using Lasers To Recognize Spinning Electrons Within A Semiconductor
    8/25/2010
    Using powerful lasers, Hui Zhao, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, and graduate student Lalani Werake have discovered a new way to recognize currents of spinning electrons within a semiconductor.
  8. Researchers Successfully Test New Alternative To Traditional Semiconductors
    8/17/2010
    Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data.
  9. Synopsys Launches DesignWare USB Software Alliance Program
    8/13/2010
    Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced the launch of the DesignWare® USB Software Alliance Program with leading USB software providers emsys, Jungo, MCCI and MicroDigital as inaugural members
  10. Lattice Semiconductor To Present At The Morgan Stanley 2010 Semiconductor & Semi-Cap Equipment Corporate Access Day
    8/13/2010
    Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it is scheduled to present at the Morgan Stanley 2010 Semiconductor & Semi-Cap Equipment Corporate Access Day on Wednesday, August 25 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Chicago

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