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Celebrating 60 years of transistors

December 14, 2007 The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947.Photos: Sixty years of transistors TAGS: transistor, AT&T Bell Laboratories, signal, manufacturing, Intel, 3D

New challenges in the chip sector

December 17, 2007 After a bout of good fortune, AMD finds itself coming to grips with a resurgent Intel. Plus: Can software keep up with multicore technology? TAGS: AMD, multi-core, transistor, chip company, Intel

Year in review: Chipmakers trade places

December 18, 2007 Intel enjoyed improved sales, while AMD did its best to limit the damage during a year plagued by a key product delay. TAGS: Barcelona, AMD, transistor, chip company, quad-core, Intel, AMD Opteron

Intel aims for faster, cooler transistors

December 6, 2005 Indium antimonide doesn't exactly have a ring to it, but the compound could help chipmakers advance in the next decade. TAGS: transistor, QinetiQ Ltd., nanometer, silicon, Intel, material, channel

AMD joins transistor trend

September 10, 2002 Like Intel and IBM, Advanced Micro Devices says it's working on multiple-gate transistors, in a bid to boost chip performance. TAGS: transistor, AMD, chip company, semiconductor, IBM Corp., researcher, technique, Intel

Intel scientists find wall for Moore's Law

December 1, 2003 Semiconductor makers won't be able to shrink transistors much, if at all, beyond 2021, according to researchers. Is Moore's Law coming to an end? TAGS: transistor, semiconductor maker, electron, chip company, researcher, semiconductor, Intel, paper, Taiwan, scientist, manufacturing

Move over silicon, there's new transistor material in town

December 8, 2006 MIT, among others, is working with new composite materials it hopes will be able to reliably outpace the conducting speed of silicon. TAGS: transistor, silicon, material, professor, Apple iPod, Intel

Chip companies entering their metal period

January 27, 2007 Intel, IBM and AMD plan to unveil chips built using new materials, marking a historic shift away from traditional transistor ingredients.Intel shows off Penryn chips TAGS: transistor, silicon, AMD, material, gate, chip company, Intel, IBM Corp., manufacturing

Intel chip research focuses on memory cells

December 12, 2006 Company will present a paper this week outlining a new type of memory that could help boost processor performance. TAGS: transistor, cell, cache memory, gate, SRAM, Intel, memory

Intel sketches out nanotechnology road map

October 25, 2004 The firm is planning new ways to increase chip speed. Could "spintronics" replace silicon-based technology? TAGS: transistor, silicon, CMOS, nanotechnology, nanotube, Intel, engineer, designer, chip company

Intel completes design of Penryn chip

November 30, 2006 The company is in the midst of making the first samples of the 45-nanometer chip, expected to come out toward the end of next year. TAGS: manufacturing, transistor, AMD, Intel, design

Intel dives into the ultra-low power pool

September 20, 2005 The company's new process follows Texas Instruments and Freescale's drive toward more efficient power for phones and mobile computers. TAGS: Freescale Semiconductor Inc., transistor, Intel, Texas Instruments Inc., process, technique, power, chip company, battery

Moore says nanoelectronics face tough challenges

March 10, 2005 Forty years ago, the Intel co-founder coined Moore's Law. He never thought it would last this long, either. TAGS: transistor, silicon, nanotube, co-founder, Intel, article, material, Silicon Valley, scientist, CEO

Intel helps build low-power transistor

February 10, 2005 Companies make public product of joint research that could form the basis of future "high-performance" chips. TAGS: transistor, QinetiQ Ltd., electron, Intel, chip company, researcher, battery

IBM, AMD claim a better way to strain silicon

December 13, 2004 Chip performance is being improved by pulling silicon atoms apart, and in some cases pushing them closer together. TAGS: transistor, silicon, AMD, DSL, IBM Corp., Intel, technique

Intel readies new chipsets

June 5, 2007 Computex attendees in Taiwan will see Intel launch an annual update to its chipsets, along with a new notebook for emerging markets. TAGS: chipset, Computex, Intel Penryn, AsusTek Computer, Taiwan, Intel, emerging market, notebook computer, transistor, Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows

Intel to throttle power by enhancing silicon

August 30, 2004 Power consumption continues to climb, so Intel will reach into the bag of tricks to keep Moore's Law going. TAGS: transistor, silicon, power consumption, AMD, Intel, manufacturing, generation, process

Intel mulls metal over silicon for new chips

November 5, 2003 The chipmaker is looking at revamping two fundamental elements of its transistors--the transistor gate and the gate dielectric--to improve its chips' speed and performance. TAGS: transistor, gate, Silicon-on-Insulator, silicon, metal, semiconductor, AMD, AMD Athlon, Intel, chip company, IBM Corp.

Intel shows test chips made on future processes

January 25, 2006 Moore's Law is on track, the chipmaker says, and it shows off 45-nanometer creations to prove it. Photos: Intel's 45-nanometer process TAGS: transistor, lithography, SRAM, Intel, chip company, manufacturing, process, transition, AMD, size

Fujitsu Siemens eyes nanotech for chips

March 10, 2005 With silicon being pushed to its limits, some see carbon nanotubes as the future of chips. TAGS: transistor, Fujitsu Siemens, microprocessor, Hannover, signal, nanotechnology, Intel, Germany
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