Sentences with phrase «on the silicon chips used»

«RAM is placed on the silicon chips used in electronic devices, and the companies that make these chips have it down to a science,» says Jim Handy, a director with Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market - research firm based in Los Gatos, Calif. «Every year, they put more memory on smaller chips while keeping their prices relatively steady.

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To suggest otherwise is silly, akin to saying that silicon chips don't work (despite writing the comment on a computer using them.)
Making chocolate chips using the silicon criss - cross hollows on the trivet made this an easy job.
The tiny power chips will be made on six - inch silicon carbide wafers using the same manufacturing technique used to make other types of computer chips.
The GE lab, an arm of its Niskayuna - based Global Research Center, will focus on packaging silicon carbide chips for use in power devices.
«Our design incorporates conventional silicon transistor switches to «turn on» operations between qubits in a vast two - dimensional array, using a grid - based «word» and «bit» select protocol similar to that used to select bits in a conventional computer memory chip,» he added.
Using the new methods of micromachining, which borrow technology for making computer chips to carve out and build up microscopic structures on silicon wafers, Peter Gammel and his colleagues at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies reduced three of the critical devices of a cell phone to Lilliputian size that will allow all the components of a phone to be constructed on a single chip.
Incorporating silicon materials within the fibre geometry avoids the issues associated with coupling between the micron - sized fibres used for the transport of light, and the nanoscale waveguides on - chip that are employed for data processing and communications systems.
IBM Research is working on «interlayer cooling,» in which water is pumped through tiny tubes penetrating chips are piggypacked using high - speed communication technology called through - silicon vias.
Researchers of the University of Stuttgart achieved a new world record in coupling efficiency between optical fibers and integrated silicon waveguides based on the new developed aperiodic grating coupler structures that are fabricated using the technology process of IMS CHIPS.
«Dual frequency comb generated on a single chip using a single laser: Columbia Engineers are the first to miniaturize dual - frequency combs by putting two frequency comb generators on a single millimeter - sized silicon - based chip; could lead to low - cost, portable sensing, and spectroscopy in the field in real - time.»
Like silicon, graphene is a semiconductor, but the nano - sized ribbons could be used to pack much more processing power on every computer chip.
(That's right — a company built on chips based on silicon is trying to get the world to move away from using it in solar cells.)
However, until now, all prototypes of devices based on conventional ferroelectrics have not been compatible with silicon technology, which is used in the production of most modern chips.
The scientists used CMOS - compatible silicon nanophotonic waveguides on a silicon - on - insulator chip.
In the single - atom qubit used by Morello's team, and which Tosi's new design applies, a silicon chip is covered with a layer of insulating silicon oxide, on top of which rests a pattern of metallic electrodes that operate at temperatures near absolute zero and in the presence of a very strong magnetic field.
«Part of why this is new and exciting is that it uses silicon photonics, which is this new platform for doing optics on a chip,» says Alex Tait, an electrical engineer at Princeton University who was not involved in the work.
For inventing bistable digital micromirror devices based on silicon chips and for pioneering their uses in full colour video projectors which give large bright pictures of high quality using a lamp of normal power.
Also during the late 1990s, Cornell University researchers Michael Shuler and Gregory Baxter, for example, described an «animal on a chip» that used living cells embedded in a silicon chip.
Polymer Vision, which was spun out of the Philips Incubator Programme, in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, in January, is concentrating on getting its product to market first, so it has opted to stick with traditional lithographic fabrication techniques more typically used to make silicon chips.
This silicon chip «coprocessor» will be designed by Microsoft, and will be chiefly used to analyze visual data on the device.
The actual code enabling the first custom system - on - chip from Google will be tied to the application programming interfaces of the company's camera software, meaning that any third - party developers seeking to utilize the SoC will have to take advantage of these particular APIs in order to use the custom - built silicon.
Now that the A11 chip is on par with dual core Kaby Lakes aren't we this close > < to Apple using an X variant of their own silicon in MacBooks.
Architected, coded (Verilog) and verified (UVM) silicon characterization blocks used on 28nm test chip and coded firmware utilization.
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