Selected articles of current technical interest.








Processing Technology

IBM's eDRAM helps AMD more than it hurts Intel
IBM unveiled a smaller, faster and cooler type of computer memory it says will improve the performance of graphics and other embedded systems over traditional SRAM or static random access memory.

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Texas researchers claim fastest photonic waveguide
Researchers at the University of Texas are claiming the world's fastest silicon photonic waveguide, which achieved a 1,000-fold increase in speed combined with lower power consumption than previously demonstrated chips.

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Intel tips 80-core, 1Tflop "research chip"
Intel Corp. says it's developed a futuristic programmable processor with a single 80-core chip that achieves "teraflops performance" (trillions of calculations/sec), and consumes just 62W of power, less than that of some of today's single-core processors.

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Scientists tout telescoping nanotube switches for memory devices
Researchers at the U. of California-Riverside have designed the building blocks for a memory device that uses telescoping binary or three-stage carbon nanotubes as high-speed, low-power microswitches.

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Industry News

Collaboration holds key to effective wet cleans on low-k dielectric
The promise of low-k dielectrics is starting to be realized in the semiconductor manufacturing field. Once considered a daunting challenge, low-k dielectrics are an enabling technology in today's 65-nm processes and will play a key role in the move to 45-nm.

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AMAT: Memory holding up until foundry activity recovers
Applied Materials Inc. delivered fiscal 1Q07 results that were down sequentially as expected. But an anticipated recovery by the foundry sector and sustained strength in NAND flash could help the company exceed overall projected industry capex growth, executives said in a conference call discussing the numbers.

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Taiwan tech firms brace for ending "tax holiday"
Taiwan's top high-tech businesses are slowly ramping up their tax payments ahead of the expiration of a five-year tax holiday, noted the Taiwan Economic News.

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Reort: Sony cutting back chip spending
Sony Corp. plans to slash its chip spending in the next few years, and may look to outsource production of the next version of chips used in its PlayStation 3 gaming console, in a move to improve profitability, according to a Reuters report.

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