CHIP TECH - SINO DAILY

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

The Middle Ages certainly were far from being science-friendly: Whoever looked for new findings off the beaten track faced the threat of being burned at the sta...

Photons on demand make enables photonic like integrated circuit

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Holographic atomic memory, invented and constructed by physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, is the first device able to generate ...

Sorting machine for atoms

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists at the University of Bonn have cleared a further hurdle on the path to creating quantum computers: in a recent study, they present a method with whic...

Quantum RAM: Modelling the big questions with the very small

Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)

Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes could be simulated using a "quantum hard drive", much smaller than the memory re...

Towards new IT devices with stable and transformable solitons

Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)

Unavoidably, each digital information we send around the globe is prone to be lost. Travelling long ways in wires, the initial signal decays and scatters by col...

Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction

Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)

A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) ...

First ever blueprint unveiled to construct a large scale quantum computer

Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)

An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the mo...

Atomic-level sensors enable measurements of electric field within a chip

Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)

Semiconductors lie at the heart of many of the electronic devices that govern our daily lives. The proper functioning of semiconductor devices relies on their i...

The world's first heat-driven transistor

Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)

"We are the first in the world to present a logic circuit, in this case a transistor, that is controlled by a heat signal instead of an electrical signal," stat...

Electron movement on helium may impact the future of quantum computing

Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)

The future of quantum computing is a hot topic not only for experts but also in many commercial and governmental agencies. Rather than processing and storing in...

First step towards photonic quantum network

Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)

Advanced photonic nanostructures are well on their way to revolutionising quantum technology for quantum networks based on light. Researchers from the Niels Boh...

Apple legal fight with Qualcomm spreads to China

Jan 26, 2017 (AFP)

Apple on Wednesday took its legal war with Qualcomm to China, filing lawsuits there accusing the chip-making giant of illegally wielding monopoly power. Apple c...

Apple antitrust suit: Qualcomm overcharged 'billions'

Jan 21, 2017 (AFP)

Apple on Friday sued Qualcomm, accusing the California chipmaker of abusing its market power to demand unfair royalties, echoing charges filed days earlier by U...

The speed limit for intra-chip communications in microprocessors of the future

Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a theory that gives the possibility to precisely predict the level of noise caused ...

China's largest chip company to build $30 billion semiconductor factory

Jan 20, 2017 (AFP)

China's largest chip maker has announced it will invest $30 billion to build a new semiconductor factory, as the world's second largest economy seeks to reduce ...

Theorists propose new class of topological metals with exotic electronic properties

Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Zurich have proposed a theory-based approach to characterize a class of metals that possess exotic electro...

Chip-sized, high-speed terahertz modulator raises possibility of faster data transmission

Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)

Tufts University engineers have invented a chip-sized, high-speed modulator that operates at terahertz (THz) frequencies and at room temperature at low voltages...

Microbiologists make big leap in developing 'green' electronics

Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)

Microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have discovered a new type of natural wire produced by bacteria that could greatly a...

Multiregional brain on a chip

Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)

Harvard University researchers have developed a multiregional brain-on-a-chip that models the connectivity between three distinct regions of the brain. The in v...

NUS researchers achieve major breakthrough in flexible electronics

Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)

Semiconductors, which are the very basic components of electronic devices, have improved our lives in many ways. They can be found in lighting, displays, solar ...