Today's long-awaited introduction of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors was really only half an introduction; we met the quad-core chips, but not the promised dual-core versions. Still, it is important ...

June 12, 2003 - Intel Corporation revealed new details of its advanced “tri-gate” transistor design this week at the 2003 Symposia of VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan and said that the tri ...

NASA, the double-helix model, Elvis ... there's a long list of things that emerged during the 1950s which still resonate strongly in 2011, but none more so than the humble silicon transistor.

Intel Producing First Processor Prototypes With New, Tiny 45 Nanometer Transistors, Accelerating Era of Multi-Core Computing In one of the biggest advancements in fundamental transistor design, Intel ...

At IDF 2011, Mark Bohr, senior research fellow and super-boffin, detailed how Intel has expanded the range of transistor types for each manufacturing process - some are designed for high-power, some ...

Chip maker Intel has taken the wraps off a new advancement in microprocessor design, using two new materials to built the insulating barriers and switching gates on its 45 nanometer transistors. The ...

As it turns out, the answer is not 42, it’s 42.3 — thousand. That’s how many discrete transistors spread across the 30 m 2 room housing this massive computation machine. [James Newman’s] Megaprocessor ...

Advanced Micro Devices has developed two sets of next-generation transistors using different approaches that produce higher levels of performance than conventional transistors, the company said at the ...

DRAM makes up the bulk of non-volatile memory in computer systems. Much has been done lately to mix non-volatile storage with DRAM. However, DRAM’s performance and capacity still win out when it comes ...