December 7, 2016
IMEC has claimed at IEDM to have implemented for the first time the CMOS integration of vertically stacked nanowire transistors.
December 7, 2016
Award-winning paper describes new strategy offering both greater speed and accuracy.
June 9, 2016
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology adapted conventional 2D layout tools to a two-layer monolithic 3D process that resulted in sizeable space and power savings.
June 8, 2016
Deep pipelines and dynamic memory sharing may provide the key to the development of faster and more efficient server-farm blades as the focus in hardware design moves to augmenting conventional processors with specialized accelerators.
April 7, 2016
But project lead Chenming Hu, 'finFET's father', has also highlighted important changes in the funding landscape for university research.
March 11, 2016
Open-source hardware, in-field configurability, and a hardware-plus-services approach could protect margins as the IoT hammers down costs, says GSA report.
December 15, 2015
Researchers describe at IEDM 2015 how they are making gallium nitride fit into a wider range of power-handling applications and may even result in mass-market vertical transistors.
December 7, 2015
Simulation shows 7nm process will need tighter variability control than expected, and possibly accommodation for asymmetric variability
November 12, 2015
But the bridge standard's European backers still need greater support from the big EDA vendors.
October 9, 2015
IMEC and Cadence have taped out a test chip intended to explore key lithography and metal-interconnect issues that will face users of the forthcoming 5nm process node.