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Ultrathin Alternative to Silicon for Future Electronics

There’s good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have successfully integrated ultra-thin layers of the semiconductor indium arsenide onto a silicon substrate to create a nanoscale transistor with excellent electronic properties.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 22 Nov 2010

A*STAR’s IMRE and 10 EU Research Organisations Join to Create Molecular-Sized Processor

Singapore’s A*STAR participates in groundbreaking European Union (EU) project to jointly create a processor that is the size of a molecule.

22 Nov 2010

IMAPS Recognizes Nordson ASYMTEK for Technical Contribution in Microelectronics

Nordson ASYMTEK, a leader in dispensing, coating, and jetting technologies, announces it has received the 2010 Corporate Recognition Award from IMAPS (The International Microelectronics And Packaging Society).

20 Nov 2010

Synopsys Announces DesignWare ARC AS 221 BD Dual-Core Processor

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the immediate availability of the DesignWare™ ARC™ AS 221 BD dual-core processor ...

From Synopsys, Inc. 19 Nov 2010

Milan’s Research Proves Graphene's Potential in New Applications

Since graphene was first isolated in 2004 with the help of Scotch tape, researchers have excitedly turned to the material to discover its potential applications. A single layer of carbon atoms whose applications range fr...

19 Nov 2010

Open-Silicon Tapes Out High-Performance Processor with Cadence Silicon Realization Products

Cadence Design Systems (India) Pvt Ltd., a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., announced that Open-Silicon, Inc., a leading semiconductor company focused on ASIC design, develop-to-spec, and derivative ICs, has successfully taped out a breakthrough high-performance processor at over 2.4GHz under typical conditions utilizing the Cadence® Silicon Realization product line.

From Cadence Design Systems 19 Nov 2010

Synopsys and TowerJazz Join to Qualify Synopsys’ Custom Design Solution for 180-nm iPDK

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that they have collaborated to qualify Synopsys’ custom design solution with TowerJazz’s 180-nanometer (nm) power management (PM) interoperable process design kit (iPDK) and analog/mixed-signal (AMS) PM reference flow.

From Synopsys, Inc. 19 Nov 2010

ORNL Researchers Develop New Method to Pack Tiny Circuits on Microchip Wafers

Computer chips are the raw material of the Cyber Age. As computer developers come up with machines that process more and more data faster and faster, they push the chip manufacturers closer to the limits of their production technologies.

19 Nov 2010

New Research Unveils Principles Behind Quantum Physics

Researchers have uncovered a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics. Stephanie Wehner of Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies and the National University of Singapore and Jonathan Oppenheim of the United Kingdom's University of Cambridge published their work today in the latest edition of the journal Science.

19 Nov 2010

HELIOS Project Develops Processes to Accelerate Silicon Photonics Adoption

CEA-Leti, coordinator of the European HELIOS project to accelerate commercialization of silicon photonics, said today project partners demonstrated a laser and a 10Gb/s silicon modulator using a process that is compatible with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing.

18 Nov 2010