(Nanowerk News) Using only processes found in existing microchip fabrication facilities, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Colorado have produced a ...

Researchers create transistors combining silicon with biological silk, using common microprocessor manufacturing methods. The silk protein can be easily modified with other chemical and biological ...

SANTA CLARA (AP) - Intel Corp. will spend $6 billion to $8 billion on new chip manufacturing technology in its U.S. factories and will build a new development plant in Oregon. Santa Clara-based Intel ...

Motorola Inc. said it bought Digital Equipment Corp.’s microprocessor manufacturing plant in South Queensferry, Scotland, for an undisclosed sum. Schaumburg-based Motorola said its semiconductor ...

Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu will combine their flash memory operations in a new company to cut costs, lower prices and speed up production in a difficult market. The new company, announced ...

Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu will combine their flash memory operations in a new company to cut costs, lower prices and speed up production in a difficult market. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

Researchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara announced on Monday that they’ve succeeded in building a silicon-based laser that could be easily fabricated using the same ...

Intel has successfully manufactured silicon transistors at a new microscopic level. The transistors measure just 20 nanometres in size and were created using a manufacturing technique called Extreme ...

Ironically, the greater IT accomplishments become, the harder they are to see. Consider Intel’s latest achievement: the new Broadwell architecture that shrank microprocessor manufacturing from the ...

Berkeley -- Engineers have successfully married electrons and photons within a single-chip microprocessor, a landmark development that opens the door to ultrafast, low-power data crunching. The ...