The Mate 10 phones see the Chinese giant get on board with the skinny - bezel trend of 2017 while leveraging its ability in
silicon design to supposedly improve AI - related performance.
Chip supplier Marvell is hooking up with e-reader companies, hoping to take the lead in
silicon design for this nascent market.
This level of productivity was previously unattainable with existing silicon devices and existing
silicon design methodologies, with transistors working in active mode, not slow sub-threshold.
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The silicon designed for efficient image processing is currently available to a number of third - party apps such as Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp, though it's presently unclear whether parts of its software backend are responsible for the degraded battery performance of Google's latest Android flagships.
All of the newly announced smartwatches run Android Wear 2.0 out of the box and are powered by the Snapdragon Wear 2100 system - on - chip (SoC), a Qualcomm - made
silicon designed exclusively for contemporary Internet - enabled wearables.
The device relies on the Snapdragon 845 chipset which is Qualcomm's latest
silicon designed for this year's premium smartphones, housing four Kryo 385 Gold CPU cores clocked at up to 2.8 GHz, coupled with four additional Kryo 385 Silver CPU cores operating at a maximum frequency of 1.8 GHz.
Not exact matches
While you might guess that I grew up to be an architect, in a sense, you'd be right, although I didn't
design enormous structures made of concrete but tiny structures made of
silicon.
Kelly and Case both agree that we should be
designing for the centaur which is really about our brains working together with, not against
silicon brains.
The Jaybird X3 headphones are well -
designed, and they come with a ton of accessories, including three pairs of
silicon tips, three pairs of memory foam tips, three pairs of sports wings, and a nice little carry pouch.
Bitmain
designs the
silicon that goes into its bitcoin mining rigs, assembles the machines, then sells them to customers around the world.
The suction cups made of
silicon are soft and the patented 5 petal
design also gently massages and produces as soft vacuum to encourage let down, instead of utilizing suction alone.
The first of its kind, the touch screen collection offers a sleek
design and classic look with a stainless steel round case paired with a
silicon strap.
Ear thermometers that are
designed for children will have a little
silicon stopper that end to ensure that you never insert it too deeply.
It has a special
design with a
silicon lid to ensure that all the moisture is maintained and that the wipes do not dry up or turn brown like it is the case with some wipe warmers.
This modern watch features a streamlined
silicon wristband
design and a vibrant view of a planet in deep space on the dial.
The
design consists of only four alternate layers of zirconium oxide and
silicon dioxide and the whole stack is less than 300 nanometres thick.
The results of this work could lead to the ability to
design materials that have extensive surface areas that can be used in batteries as high durability
silicon electrodes.
Now, UNSW engineers believe they have cracked the problem, reimagining the
silicon microprocessors we know to create a complete
design for a quantum computer chip that can be manufactured using mostly standard industry processes and components.
The
design is a leap forward in
silicon spin qubits; it was only two years ago, in a paper in Nature, that Dzurak and Veldhorst showed, for the first time, how quantum logic calculations could be done in a real
silicon device, with the creation of a two - qubit logic gate — the central building block of a quantum computer.
«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.
Last year, the same team led by USC Viterbi electrical engineering professor Chongwu Zhou developed a successful anode
design using porous
silicon nanowires that allowed the material to expand and contract without breaking, effectively solving the pulverization problem.
There are at least five major quantum computing approaches being explored worldwide:
silicon spin qubits, ion traps, superconducting loops, diamond vacancies and topological qubits; UNSW's
design is based on
silicon spin qubits.
The Utah team's
design would be cheap to produce because it uses existing fabrication techniques for creating
silicon chips.
Submitted by electrical engineer Steve Lyon, the playfully named Inti the Sun God is a picture of a
silicon chip that is
designed to control electrons which float atop liquid helium.
At the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and
Design in August, Gao, Peh, and lead author Pilsoon Choi, a postdoc in Peh's group, together with researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, presented a paper demonstrating that an 802.11 p radio built from gallium nitride and controlled by
silicon electronics would consume half the power that existing radios do.
Silicon's Next Wave: A re-worked form of
silicon may be the next smallest, fastest thing in computer chip
design.
This ultra-thin and flexible platform offers high levels of tunability,
design freedom, and integration capabilities with nano - electronic platforms including
silicon CMOS.»
The tunable filter that Shi and his colleagues
designed and tested has a tuning span of 670 GHz, much greater than the approximately 100 GHz span other
silicon - based filters have achieved.
IBM has
designed such a system of hermetically sealed, double - layered pipes of
silicon and
silicon oxide just.002 inches in diameter, illustrated here, which it hopes to make commercially available in a few years.
Although experimental cells have reached efficiencies greater than 40 percent, most
silicon - based commercial
designs struggle to get past about 20 percent.
Ma, who says he has worked with both the Intel and IBM research groups but is not privy to either's
design, adds that the presence of
silicon dioxide would require chipmakers to add nitrogen to the hafnium oxide as well.
He denies speculation that thin - film solar cells will eventually kill the traditional crystalline
silicon phtotvoltaics end of the business, noting that they are
designed to supplement, not supplant, the old standbys.
While the
design would be moderately disruptive for industry, it's still compatible with standard
silicon fab technology and opens the potential for generations of ever - smaller fin FETs on a chip, he said.
«With modeling and optimization using our in - house code, we can
design a
silicon modulator with best - in - class performance,» says Lim, «which will facilitate the development of low - loss, high - speed optical data transmission systems.»
«The Wong / Mitra paper demonstrates the promise of CNTs in
designing complex computing systems,» Shanbhag said, adding that this «will motivate researchers elsewhere» toward greater efforts in chip
design beyond
silicon.
«We fabricated an array of hollow microprobes with
designed diameters, heights, and numbers from a
silicon substrate using microfabrication techniques.
The team's
design consists of a circuit of coupled
silicon waveguides that guide infrared light with a wavelength of 1.5 micrometers.
So wires could be replaced by optical interconnects:
silicon structures
designed to carry infrared light.
The team of engineers with expertise in optics, photonics, and thermal engineering developed a hybrid structure of
silicon and vanadium dioxide with a conical
design to better control the radiation from the body of the satellite.
These could be turned into foundries, like the
silicon foundry services which turn their customers» circuit
designs into chips.
The Stanford algorithm
designs silicon structures so slender that more than 20 of them could sit side - by - side inside the diameter of a human hair.
At the same time, they are also trying to demonstrate integration of graphene NEMS with
silicon integrated circuits, making the oscillator
design even more compact.
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.
Tosi said the
design sidesteps a challenge that all spin - based
silicon qubits were expected to face as teams begin building larger and larger arrays of qubits: the need to space them at a distance of only 10 - 20 nanometres, or just 50 atoms apart.
The new chip
design, detailed in the journal Nature Communications, allows for a
silicon quantum processor that can be scaled up without the precise placement of atoms required in other approaches.
These are
designed to detect dark matter particles by looking at the energy released when a particle smashes into a nucleus of germanium or
silicon.
Duan pointed out that the same porous scaffold
design they used with niobia could be used with other active materials like
silicon or tin oxide, which boast high energy density, the ability to store lots of ions for longer - lasting batteries.
One example is newly
designed and successfully synthesized
silicon - and fluorine - containing high - chi BCP, poly (polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane - block -2,2,2-trifluoroethyl methacrylate)(PMAPOSS - b - PTFEMA) whose surface free energies of the constituents are perfectly balanced.
Dr Andrew Rickman, founder, CEO and chairman of Rockley Photonics, explained: «Our highly innovative
silicon photonics technology is
designed to address the optical I / O challenges facing next generation data centres — allowing network architects to take advantage of new high - density, low - power connectivity solutions and explore new network topologies and equipment
design.