Global Semiconductor Forum (GSF) - News, views and contacts for the semiconductor industry 

Projects Samsung Electronics is constructing a 300mm wafer fab in Austin, Texas. Nokia has chosen Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India, for its tenth mobile phone factory. Toshiba Corp. and ... SanDisk are building a new 300mm wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi operations in Japan.... » Browse all Projects   [More...] [Less...]

Chipworks maintains the largest database of semiconductor and microelectronic system reports. 

“ Chipworks’ advantage over us is their knowledge of the market and the industry. They know which products are likely to yield hits. The result is that we get more hits in less time and at lower cost than ... if we tried to do it ourselves.” -- IP Manager, Japanese Electronics Company More Quotes   [More...] [Less...]

Power Management IC Solutions, Switching Regulators, LDO, LED Drivers, Voltage Regulators, Voltages References, Power Sequencers 

Xilinx Power Expert Tool now supports Virtex 5, the newest Xilinx FPGAs National's easy-to-use Power Expert tool allows the user to select from a family of Xilinx FPGAs, select the device and then select ... the correct National Semiconductor power management ic for the system. PLAY NOW! LP3943 Funlight Driver Demo Software - This software has "virtual LEDs" to let you evaluate the LP3943 instantly Analog University Download Analog University® Brochure (pdf 494KB) Press Releases Introduction to Power Management Introduction to Power Supplies Linear and Switching Voltage Regulator Fundamentals - Part 1 (pdf) - Part 2 (pdf)   [More...] [Less...]

The Industry Handbook - Semiconductor Industry 

To make things easier for us, technologies must become more complex. Consider the latest advances in mobile phones. On the outside, handsets are increasingly functional and reliable; on the inside they ... are a tangle of chips and processors that grows increasingly complex with each new function added. That complexity comes from companies in the semiconductor industry. From microprocessors to integrated circuits, the tiny products of the semiconductor industry are the engines that drive technology. The semiconductor industry lives –- and dies –- by a simple creed: smaller, faster, and cheaper. The newest chips have circuits with lines less than 0.13 microns across – less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair. The benefit of being tiny is pretty simple: finer lines mean more transistors can be packed onto the same chip. The more transistors on a chip, the faster it can do its work. Thanks in large part to fierce competition and also to new technologies that lower the cost of produc   [More...] [Less...]

Intel Previews a New Family of Power-Saving Chips 

Novel Semiconductor Structure Bends Light Wrong Way - The Right Direction For Many Apps 

An easy-to-produce material made from the stuff of computer chips has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. The semiconductors that constitute ... the Princeton invention are grown from crystals using common manufacturing techniques, making it less complex, more reliable and easier to produce than other metamaterials. Credit: Keith Drake by Staff Writers Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 16, 2007 A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startling property may contribute to significant advances in many areas, including high-speed communications, medical diagnostics and detection of terrorist threats. The new substance is in a relatively new class of materials called "metamaterials," which are made out of traditional substances, such as metals or semiconductors, arranged in   [More...] [Less...]

SAMSUNG United Kingdom 

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Memory device and methods of using and making the device 

Abstract A memory cell made of two electrodes with a controllably conductive media between the two electrodes is disclosed. The controllably conductive media contains an active low conductive layer and ... passive layer. The controllably conductive media changes its impedance when an external stimuli such as an applied electric field is imposed thereon. Methods of making the memory devices/cells, methods of using the memory devices/cells, and devices such as computers containing the memory devices/cells are also disclosed. Primary Examiner: Booth; Richard A. Attorney, Agent or Firm: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP Claims What is claimed is: 1. A method of making a memory cell comprising: providing a first electrode; forming a passive layer comprising a conductivity facilitating compound over the first electrode, the passive layer having an ability to donate and accept at least one of holes and electrons; forming a low conductive layer comprising a conjugated organic polymer over the passive   [More...] [Less...]

Keeping up with Moore's Law - International Herald Tribune 

NEW YORK : If innovation has a heart, it is probably a semiconductor, beating to the pace of Moore's Law. Under this principle, named for Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, the chip industry in the ... last four decades has doubled the number of transistors it crams onto a chip about every 18 months. That is a big reason that chips are now in our offices, homes, cars and toys - and often implanted in our pets and occasionally in our own bodies. Chips are almost ubiquitous, and where they are not, they probably will be soon. But keeping the heart of innovation beating is becoming ever harder and more expensive. Making chips is an improbable blend of farming, photography and baking: Think of your standard 300-millimeter silicon wafer as a field where mostly metallic substances are "grown" according to patterns put in place by photolithography, and then "baked" at extremely high temperatures. This agri-photo-baking requires big money: It costs $3 billion to $5 billion to build a single se   [More...] [Less...]