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Silicon-Germanium Microelectronics Reduces Spacecraft Weight

Space environments can deliver a beating to spacecraft electronics. For decades, satellites and other spacecraft have used bulky and expensive shielding to protect vital microelectronics-microprocessors and other integrated circuits-from space radiation.

28 Sep 2009

National Physical Laboratory Developing Equipment and Techniques to Support Organic Electronics

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute, is developing equipment and techniques to support the growing use of organic electronics.

28 Sep 2009

Applied Materials Awarded Integrated Service Contract by Fujitsu Microelectronics

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded an integrated service contract by Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd. to support its advanced 300mm semiconductor factory in Mie, Japan. Under the program, Appli...

From Applied Materials Inc. 28 Sep 2009

IBM Fellow Changed the Course of Nanotechnology Research Twenty Years Ago

On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team used a custom-built microscope to spell out the letters IBM (NYSE: IBM) with 35 xenon atoms.

28 Sep 2009

Virage Logic's RFID NVM Solution Being Developed on SMIC's 180nm LL Process

Virage Logic Corporation (NASDAQ:VIRL), the semiconductor industry's trusted IP partner, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI and SEHK: 0981.HK) today announced a rad...

From Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) 28 Sep 2009

Integrated Circuit that Operates at 125 Degrees Kelvin

Their discovery, detailed this week in the advance online issue of the journal Nature Photonics, follows the team's demonstration last summer of an integrated circuit-an assembly of transistors that is the building block for all electronic devices-capable of working at 1.5 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero.

27 Sep 2009

Kilopass and SMIC Announces Embedded OTP Partnership

Kilopass Technology Inc., the leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI and SEHK:...

From Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) 25 Sep 2009

AFOSR Funding for Nanotechnology Research

Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in electronic, thermal, mechanical and sensing devices for the Air Force.

25 Sep 2009

Sandia Receives "Trusted Foundry" Accreditation from DoD

Sandia National Laboratories' silicon fabrication facility in Albuquerque, N.M., has been accredited by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide "trusted foundry" services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits. The foundry accreditation represents an increase in scope to Sandia's already-existing accreditation for design services.

From Sandia National Laboratories 24 Sep 2009

Intel Introduces First 45nm-Manufactured Consumer Electronics SoC

Intel Corporation today unveiled the Intel® Atom™ processor CE4100, the newest System-on-Chip (SoC) in a family of media processors designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes.

24 Sep 2009