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US hits network that smuggled chips to Russian arms makers
Oct 19, 2022 (AFP)
Separately, three Latvians and a Ukrainian were charged for attempting to send a US-made high-precision industrial grinder to Russia that the Justice Department...
Asian chipmakers plunge after US unveils China export controls
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement on Friday marked the latest volley in a long-running standoff between the two superpowers that has seen them face off over a range of issues in...
US tightens chip export controls to China
Oct 08, 2022 (AFP)
The moves complicate Beijing's push to further its own semiconductor industry and develop advanced military systems, and come days ahead of a major party congre...
Disposable electronics on a simple sheet of paper
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces have created a prototype circuit board that is made of a sheet paper with fully integrated el...
Micron unveils new $100 bn New York semiconductor plant
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
The chip giant, which is based in the western state of Idaho, said it plans to begin construction in 2024 on a project expected to be executed over two decades....
CAES wins contracts to develop user-selectable CPU for space
Sep 25, 2022 (SPX)
CAES previously received funding from the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) within ESA's General Support Technology Program (GSTP) for the preliminary GR765 ...
Artificial synaptic semiconductor device latest in next-generation brain-mimicking computing
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
However, considering conventional resistance-variable memory devices widely used as artificial synapses, as the filament grows with varying resistance, the elec...
Foxconn strikes $19.4 bn deal to make chips in India
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
Semiconductors are an essential component of nearly all modern electronics, from smartphones to kitchen appliances and cars, but the coronavirus pandemic kneeca...
Making mini-magnets
Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)
If you take an ordinary wire with electrical current running through it, you can create a new electrical voltage perpendicular to the flow of current by applyin...
US must be 'at the table' in semiconductor field: Blinken
Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)
Addressing students and researchers at Purdue University, home to one of America's top engineering schools, Blinken stressed the importance of "getting into tha...
Modified microwave oven cooks up next-gen semiconductors
Sep 09, 2022 (SPX)
The research is detailed in a paper published in Applied Physics Letters. The lead author is James Hwang, a research professor in the department of materials sc...
Biden says US must develop chips to keep up with China
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
"All of this is in our economic interest, and it's in our national security interest as well," Biden said at the site where Intel plans to build a $20 billion f...
MIT chemists develop a wireless electronic lateral flow assay test for biosensing
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
Various attempts to make a quantitative LFA have yielded complications due to the optical basis of a quantitative test - scattered stray light and faint images....
Semiconductor giant Micron to invest $15 bn in Idaho
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
The plan, part of a Micron global investment strategy to invest $150 billion, will create 17,000 new jobs, the Boise, Idaho-based company said. The initiative, ...
A quantum pump without the crank
Aug 30, 2022 (SPX)
Pumps, in a nutshell, are devices that use cyclic motion to attain the steady transport of some cargo. In a bicycle pump, the repeated up and down strokes of a ...
Electron and nuclear spin qubits 2D array opens new frontier in quantum science
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
As published Monday (Aug. 15) in Nature Materials, the research team used electron spin qubits as atomic-scale sensors, and also to effect the first experimenta...
MIT team reports giant response of semiconductors to light
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
The team found that these important materials not only become much stiffer in response to light, but the effect is reversible when the light is turned off. The ...
Biden signs major semiconductors investment bill to compete against China
Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)
The Chips and Science Act includes around $52 billion to promote production of microchips, the tiny but powerful and relatively hard-to-make components at the h...
Faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
Programmable resistors are the key building blocks in analog deep learning, just like transistors are the core elements for digital processors. By repeating arr...
New method of controlling qubits could advance quantum computers
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
Precise control of qubits - or quantum bits, the basic building blocks of quantum computers - is critical to do this, but methods of controlling qubits have lim...
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