(Nanowerk News) After years of tackling numerous design and manufacturing challenges, MIT researchers have built a modern microprocessor from carbon nanotube transistors, which are widely seen as a ...

imec, KU Leuven, and PragmatIC Semiconductor, a specialist in flexible electronics, are to demonstrate the fastest 8-bit microprocessor in 0.8µm metal-oxide flexible technology that's capable of ...

Imec, KU Leuven, and PragmatIC Semiconductor present the fastest 8-bit microprocessor in 0.8µm metal-oxide flexible technology capable of running real-time complex assembly code at the 2022 ...

Intel is preparing to talk about a bunch of research advances at a chip engineering conference next week. The advances range from a new microprocessor with 2.3 billion transistors on a sliver of ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the microprocessor. But developments in these semiconductor chips, which are the heart of every electronic device, continue with gusto. Researchers at UK-based ...

Using only processes found in existing microchip fabrication facilities, researchers have produced a working optoelectronic microprocessor, which computes electronically but uses light to move ...

Your phone may have more than 15 billion tiny transistors packed into its microprocessor chips. The transistors are made of silicon, metals like gold and copper, and insulators that together take an ...

“We always hoped that something like this could be built – now we know that it can be built,” says Max Shulaker, professor at MIT and corresponding author on this latest report. Carbon nanotubes have ...

A hybrid transistor design that could mean faster and far less power-hungry wireless devices has been unveiled by researchers from IBM. Ghavam Shahidi and colleagues from IBM’s Watson Research Centre ...