Topic: Circuit and Device Engineering

Future Chips To Get More Powerful, Research Shows Plenty of Life in Moore's Law

Gordon Moore's 1965 observation of increasing integrated circuit power paralleling shrinkage in size was originally tentatively phrased: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two ...READ»

Rapid Prototyping using Evaluation Boards

Creating electronic products is as easy as installing software and connecting an electronic circuit board (Evaluation Board)to your desktop or notebook computer's USB port. Semiconductor manufacturers are developing and selling ...READ»

New Conducting Ink Heralds Printable Semiconductor Revolution

Flexible circuitry is a big upcoming trend in electronics, but there remain a few challenges to overcome before it can really take off. Now Polyera, a US company that makes specialist chemicals for flexible electronic devices, may ...READ»

New Chip Technology Could Help Computers Think on Their Own

While there's a lot of work to push nanotechnology as the future of computer chips, good old-fashioned semiconductors still have a lot of life in them yet: and they've recently been given a boost with a radical new type of circuit ...READ»

Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

A completely reimagined computer chip from Intel drinks 10 times less power -- and puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand.READ»

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His Word Is Law

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Intel v. ARM: The Battle to Run Your Smartphone and Netbook

Intel and ARM used to live in peaceful coexistence. ARM designed small chips for a litany of inexpensive devices--mobile phones, disk drives, game systems, anti-lock brakes, washing machines--while Intel's forte was ...READ»

Professor Copies the Inner Ear, Invents a Tiny Universal Radio Chip

A new radio chip mimics the human inner ear--but detects signals at frequencies of about a million times higher--could enable universal wireless devices that are able to pick up almost any electrical signal in the air.READ»

Disrupter - Akira Ishikawa

The semiconductor has been the driving force behind the digital revolution. Now Akira Ishikawa is looking to force the revolution into overdrive by creating semiconductors in the form of spheres instead of chips -- a breakthrough with truly electrifyingREAD»

How Intel Puts Innovation Inside

Everybody worships at the altar of innovation. But it takes a company such as Intel to distill the very essence of innovation and turn it into a set of learnable, repeatable practices.READ»

Killer Results Without Killing Yourself

At 36, Intel's David Marsing suffered a near-fatal heart attack. Now he's running the world's largest semi-conductor factory -- and trying to save Intel from itself.READ»

Failure Is an Option

The dream behind Exponential Technology was bold -- to build the world's fastest computer chip. The reality was messy. The end was bloody -- $30 million of wasted capital, four years of wasted effort. So why are so many people grateful for the experience?READ»

The Solid State Revolution

The death of moving parts means your stocking will be stuffed with smaller,faster, stronger -- and quieter -- gadgets. READ»

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Carbon-Nanotube Memory Catches Up With Flash

Carbon nanotubes have been proposed as solutions to a host of modern technical problems, from space elevators to pin-point accurate drug delivery. But a more viable role for the 'tubes is as a computer memory storage device. And a ...READ»

Rest in Peace

Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, died Monday. His work in electrical engineering helped birth the information age and propelled the development of the consumer electronics market. Kilby invented the circuit while ...READ»

Should You Invest in AMD?

Intel [INTC] may be the semiconductor industry titan, but new chips released today by AMD [AMD] suggest the company can compete with Intel technologically. AMD's stock is hovering around $2 a share. Are shares of AMD undervalued? ...READ»

Apple Creating Chip-Tech Brain-Tank, but Why?

When a big technology company begins gathering a specialist group of experts together, in some cases poaching them from key posts in other successful outfits, it's a strategic maneuver. In this case, it's the famously secretive ...READ»

Where's Our Eco-Friendly LED Lighting?

Tiny, cold, super-efficient at turning electrical energy into light, and relatively cheap--that's a summary of light emitting diode technology as it stands. Given this fact, and the pressure to make electrical items greener in terms ...READ»

The Need To Build Technical Skills - Telle Whitney

At the Anita Borg Institute, we work closely with technical women, as well as with our partner companies to develop their technical talent, especially at the mid level. As you saw from Caroline’s last post, many women in our ...READ»

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Renewable Energy Solar Cells Ain't So Renewable

Sanyo's just announced that it's going to build a new factory in Japan dedicated to solar photovoltaic cell manufacture--the company plans to double its solar cell output to meet rising demand as the world slowly catches on to the ...READ»

When Globalization Works, Well...

Salon's Andrew Leonard suggests that the "Made in China" label is an indicator of how globalization works well. How so? Despite concerns about offshoring-caused job loss and brain drain, China's consumer electronics industry draws ...READ»

Why Minority Report-Style OS Is Coming To PCs Sooner Than You Think

Windows Icons Mice and Pointers--the WIMP environment is how we've been piloting our computers since the clever guys at Xerox PARC developed the system in the early 1970's. The mouse itself has just turned 40 years old. But a number, even vital...READ»

The Best Things in Life Are Free

In an excerpt from his new book, Free Prize Inside!, Seth Godin shows how anyone can champion new ideas.READ»

The Best Things in Life Are Free

In an excerpt from his book, Free Prize Inside!, Seth Godin shows how anyone can champion new ideas.READ»