Before long, sensors may be implanted in our bodies to do things like measure blood-glucose levels in diabetics or retinal pressure in glaucoma patients. But to be practical, they'll have to both be very small--as tiny as a grain of sand--and use long-lasting batteries of similarly small size, a combination not commercially available today. ...

Huang, who comes from humble roots as the son of farmers in rural China, has invented a new transistor that uses a compound material known as gallium nitride (GaN), which has remarkable material properties. The new GaN transistor could reduce the power consumption and improve the efficiency of power electronics systems in everything from ...

IBM has announced a novel process that uses self-assembly techniques to create air gaps that insulate wires in microprocessors. Early results show that these air-gap ...

Moore's Law is, and has been, an undeniable driving force in the computer industry for close to four decades now. But it is also plagued by misunderstanding....

IBM has a three-dimensional stacking approach for connecting chips that creates the possibility of up to 100 times more pathways for information, and that divides by 1,000 times the distance that information needs to travel on a chip. The advance ...

Intel is developing a new generation of 45 nanometer chips that would achieve a significant increase in performance without consuming more power. ...

The world's first computers whose architecture can adopt different forms depending on their application have been developed by Raytheon Company. Dubbed MONARCH (Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture) and developed to address the large data volume...

Cadence Design Systems, a maker of software tools. has made it possible to route lines diagonally for semiconductor chips, which will add to the speed, efficiency and performance of a generation of smaller chips....

Chip companies are finding ways around the physical problems that have held them back from making chips go faster. On Feb. 14, IBM said it plans to combine microprocessor and memory chips onto a single piece of silicon to substantially improve pro...

Intel will demonstrate on Monday an experimental computer ''Teraflop Chip'' with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives say provides a model for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server...