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Micron Designs P420m PCIe Accelerator Card using Advanced 25-nm MLC NAND Flash Technology

Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU) today announced a new PCIe all-flash I/O accelerator to improve overall performance in enterprise servers, appliances and storage platforms.

From Micron Technology, Inc. 3 May 2013

MOSIS to Offer Advanced Silicon Photonics Technology

MOSIS, a provider of low-cost prototyping and small volume production services for custom ICs, teams up with imec, Tyndall and ePIXfab -- the European Silicon Photonics support center providing low-cost prototyping services for photonic ICs.

From IMEC 3 May 2013

SRC Joins Nano-Engineered Electronic Device Simulation Project

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) recently joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a partner in an ongoing NSF project to further develop compact models of emerging nanoelectronic devices such as might be used in next-generation consumer electronics.

3 May 2013

Solar3D Begins Discussions with CNSE Foundry to Fabricate Innovative New Solar Cell

Solar3D, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough 3-dimensional solar cell technology to maximize the conversion of sunlight into electricity, today announced that it has begun discussions with the Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, in New York, to fabricate a manufacturing ready prototype and execute a pilot manufacturing run of its new solar cell.

3 May 2013

Precisely Placed Atoms Used to Create World's Smallest Movie

Scientists from IBM today unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named "A Boy and His Atom," the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS -verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action.

2 May 2013

RDA Microelectronics Samples EDGE Baseband Smartphone Solution

RDA Microelectronics, Inc. (the "Company"), a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets wireless systems-on-chip and radio-frequency semiconductors for cellular, connectivity and broadcast applications, today announced the sampling of its RDA8810 EDGE baseband smartphone solution.

2 May 2013

Researchers Read Nuclear Spins Relevant to Qubits at Room Temperature

Professor Weimin Chen and his colleagues at Linköping University, in cooperation with German and American researchers, have succeeded in both initializing and reading nuclear spins, relevant to qubits for quantum computers, at room temperature. The results have just been published in the renowned journal Nature Communications.

2 May 2013

GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Infineon Partner to Produce 40nm eFlash MCUs

Infineon Technologies and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. today announced a joint technology development and production agreement for 40 nanometer (nm) embedded flash (eFlash) process technology.

From GlobalFoundries 30 Apr 2013

Researchers Develop Supramolecular Thiophene Nanosheets

Dr. Taichi Ikeda (Senior Researcher) of the NIMS Electronic Functional Materials Group, Polymer Materials Unit, in joint research with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Germany), developed the world’s first supramolecular thiophene nanosheets, which is a 2-dimensional sheet-type organic material with a thickness of 3.5nm.

From National Institute for Materials Science 29 Apr 2013

Resistive Switching Memory Cells Also Behave as Tiny Batteries

Resistive memory cells (ReRAM) are regarded as a promising solution for future generations of computer memories. They will dramatically reduce the energy consumption of modern IT systems while significantly increasing their performance.

26 Apr 2013