CHIP TECH - SINO DAILY

Oct 27, 2020 (XNA)

That Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed the importance and urgency for the Party to deepen its understanding of the cutting-ed...

Optical wiring for large quantum computers

Oct 23, 2020 (SPX)

That is exactly the problem faced by physicists who try to build quantum computers using individual trapped atoms. They, too, need to aim laser beams - hundreds...

Intel shares tumble as pandemic hits results

Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)

Third-quarter profits slipped 29 percent to $4.3 billion, and revenue declined four percent to $18.3 billion. Intel shares plunged some 10 percent in after-hour...

SK Hynix in $9 bn deal for Intel's flash memory chip business

Oct 20, 2020 (AFP)

SK Hynix is already the world number two maker of DRAM chips, used in computers and servers, but has lagged in the market for flash memory NAND chips in everyda...

Material found in house paint may spur technology revolution

Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)

A team from Sandia National Laboratories, working with collaborators from the University of Michigan, published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Ma...

Researching the chips of the future

Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)

The key resides in programmable photonics, a technology in which the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), through the Photonics Research Labs of the iTEAM ...

Researchers discover a uniquely quantum effect in erasing information

Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)

The thermodynamics of computation was brought to the fore in 1961 when Rolf Landauer, then at IBM, discovered a relationship between the dissipation of heat and...

Bringing a power tool from math into quantum computing

Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)

In a recent study, scientists from Tokyo University of Science tackle this problem by designing a novel quantum circuit that calculates the Fourier transform in...

Pentagon awards $197M to Microsoft, Intel, others for microelectronics

Oct 15, 2020 (UPI)

"The microelectronics industry is at the root of our nation's economic strength, national security, and technological standing. Today's awards support the Depar...

Liquid metals come to the rescue of semiconductors

Oct 13, 2020 (SPX)

One possibility of overcoming Moore's law is to resort to two-dimensional semiconductors. These two-dimensional materials are so thin that they can allow the pr...

New algorithm could unleash the power of quantum computers

Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)

"Quantum computers have a limited time to perform calculations before their useful quantum nature, which we call coherence, breaks down," said Andrew Sornborger...

China chip giant SMIC shares sink on US export controls

Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)

In a new blow for China's advanced tech ambitions, the US Commerce Department reportedly ordered companies to seek permission before selling equipment to Semico...

Scientists pave way for carbon-based computers

Sep 25, 2020 (UPI)

Testing that theory has proven difficult, but thanks to a recent breakthrough, detailed Friday in the journal Science, researchers now are closer to finally bui...

U.S., Britain partner on research into sensor information processing

Sep 17, 2020 (UPI)

The project is led by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development and Command Army Research Laboratory, CCDC-Atlantic and the U.K. Defense Science and Technol...

SoftBank Group selling Arm to NVIDIA for up to $40 billion

Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)

If approved, the deal will be one of the largest acquisitions anywhere in the world this year and propel NVIDIA to the forefront of the semiconductor sector. Th...

New technology lets quantum bits hold information for 10,000 times longer than previous record

Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)

Such a boost in information retention has major implications for information technology developments since the longer coherence time makes spin-orbit qubits the...

Pentagon: It's time to bring microelectronics manufacturing to the U.S.

Aug 20, 2020 (UPI)

During a prerecorded "fireside chat" at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Electronics Resurgence Initiative summit, Ellen Lord said the fact that ...

Artificial materials for more efficient electronics

Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)

A number of researchers are exploring the properties of materials that are more complex than silicon but that show promise for the electronic devices of tomorro...

US court overturns Qualcomm defeat in antitrust case

Aug 11, 2020 (AFP)

Shares in the California-based mobile chip giant jumped more than four percent on word that an appellate court was not convinced that Qualcomm's tactics in the ...

Scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materials

Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)

Recently, University of Michigan researchers Emmanouil (Manos) Kioupakis and Pierre F. P. Poudeu, both in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, util...