Nanophotonics for Communications – IEEE Nano Council
November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA--Hughes Metras from LETI described research results for nanotechnology optical communications. The photonics on silicon and 3-D...
View ArticleExtending the Life of CMOS Panel
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Roawen Chen from Marvell Semiconductor moderated a panel on extending the life of CMOS. Panel members included Jim Aralis from Microsemi, Paul...
View ArticleIntersil releases CMOS Thunderbolt Chipset
May 2012 - With the launch of the new Intel core processors including Thunderbolt (TB) as a native interface, the availability of the connector and socket is rising. Intel identified at least 100 TB...
View ArticleChip Design After Moore’s Law Ends
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA—Robert Colwell, director of the Microsystems technology office at DARPA and former Intel manager, sees the end of Dennard scaling within the next...
View ArticleElectrostatic Nano Switches
February 3, 2014, Photonics West, San Francisco—Roger Howe from Stanford described his work in electrical-mechanical switches. This work will allow further investigations into alternatives to CMOS....
View ArticleComputing’s Energy Problem
February 10, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—Mark Horowitz from Stanford talked about the need to change our views of computing and energy use. Even though Moore and Dennard promised lower costs and higher...
View ArticleNovel Dynamics in a Consolidating Semiconductor Landscape
July 7, 2014, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—An Steegen from IMEC described the requirements and readiness of next-generation processes for semiconductors. The production of semiconductors beyond...
View ArticleCMOS processing advances imaging
December 2014 – At the 60th IEDM conference in San Francisco, IMEC presented a talk on using traditional CMOS processing for enhancing imaging systems. The presentation focused on the the creation of...
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Analog CMOS from 5 Microns to 5 Nanometers
February 23, 2015, ISSCC, San Francisco—Willy Sansen from Katholieke Universiteit in Belgium looked at the history of analog CMOS designs and applied some of the developments and solutions to analog...
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