Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, theorised that symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit element, the "memristor" or memory resistor. Now HP thinks its memristor will improve memory and circuit design.
British scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest transistor, measuring one atom in thickness and 10 atoms in width.
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Intel will try to further cut power consumption in its next generation of chips by using improved strained silicon, along with transistors that block power to other circuits, and other added features.
IBM has refined its silicon-germanium chip-manufacturing technology to produce transistors that are far thinner than others.
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Intel plans to unveil more details behind its Tri-Gate transistor, an experimental circuit that could be important in the company's quest to keep up with Moore's Law.
IBM scientists have made a working RAM chip with two gates for conducting electricity, but problems remain in developing a manufacturing process.
The chipmaker says it has produced memory chips in its labs containing 330 million transistors through manufacturing technology that will hit the mainstream next year.
A scientist has detailed how to create inexpensive semiconducting plastics that may finally fulfill the promise of reducing the cost of display technology for laptops, mobile phones and other devices.
Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up.
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