Sentences with phrase «silicon microprocessors»

We're smart enough to get PhD's, split atoms, build silicon microprocessors, and put a man on the moon, yet the vast majority of 1st world individuals can't figure out how to get at least lean & healthy enough to get their doctors off their ass?

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.

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Intel makes microprocessors from silicon, why is there still silicon?

«Our technology, in terms of transistor density, is at the stage of silicon technology in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when the first microprocessors came out,» Jung says.

l Silicon: Bell Labs developed the first silicon transistor in 1954, which led to the Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, released in 1971.

«Putting lasers on microprocessors boosts their capabilities and allows them to run at much lower powers, which is a big step toward photonics and electronics integration on the silicon platform,» said professor Kei May Lau, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

«It's also important in cleanroom procedures, nanofabrication and microprocessor formation,» said Schrader, who pointed out that microprocessors are fabricated on silicon wafer substrates with a thin layer of glass, upon which circuits are laid.

Minor noted that this is already done in the semiconductor industry since oxygen and other impurities are also damaging to silicon - based microprocessors.

Mears Technologies hopes its transistor technology will extend the lifespan of traditional silicon transistors, the tiny semiconductor switches at the heart of microprocessors.

To shrink its microprocessor circuitry elements to today's 22 - nanometer size — just 22 billionths of a meter — Intel had to develop a technology called tri-gate transistors in which silicon semiconductor material protrudes in fin - shaped ridges.

Researchers studying the behavior of nanoscale materials at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered remarkable behavior that could advance microprocessors beyond today's silicon - based chips.

* Mix - signal designs of HW & SW for microprocessor (ARM & 8051) and applications High - speed optical transceiver, silicon photonics and system des...