In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, students studying microelectronic engineering in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering wanted ...

Rochester Institute of Technology's Kate Gleason College of Engineering won a two-year $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new method for silicon-wafer processing. The new ...

Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at University of California Los Angeles think it is time to have another attempt at creating a wafer-scale computer. Rekindling such a ...

(Nanowerk News) Computer chip makers continuously strive to pack more transistors in less space, yet as the size of those transistors approaches the atomic scale, there are physical limits on how ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) compute, and the Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading ...

The big picture: Infineon has developed the world's thinnest silicon power wafers, measuring just 20 micrometers in thickness – about the same as a human hair. These wafers promise significant ...

A breakthrough in next-generation semiconductor technology has been announced by Chinese researchers, with the creation of the world’s largest N-polar gallium nitride (GaN) wafer, at eight inches ...

NexWafe’s high-throughput epitaxy tool, ProCon 2.5. Image: NexWafe German solar wafer manufacturer NexWafe has announced “key milestones” in its epitaxial wafer production which it claims can reshape ...

Swansea computer chip recycling firm Pure Wafer is increasing capacity at its manufacturing base in the city as the market continues to grow for its products Swansea computer chip recycling firm Pure ...

Silicon Valley may have to be renamed Quantum Valley. It turns out that it’s possible to drum up the coherent quantum states needed to perform quantum calculations within an ordinary “doped” silicon ...

Computer chip makers continuously strive to pack more transistors in less space, yet as the size of those transistors approaches the atomic scale, there are physical limits on how small they are able ...