Prague Effects
‘About 700 visitors from abroad and more than 160 from Czechoslovakia attended the International Conference on Semiconductor Physics recently held in Prague So, 50 years ago, opens a story in...
View ArticlePoint Contact Germanium Diodes For Sale
‘Specify point contact germanium diodes’ urges an advertisement, 51 years ago, in the Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 19 1961. The ad opens: ‘Hughes HG10 series are point contact germanium...
View ArticleGraphene-MoS2 Flash Cell Made
Swiss researchers have built a flash memory cell using the single-atom-thick materials graphene and molydenum disulfide (MoS2). The cell shows the capability to retain data for ten years and to store...
View ArticleGloFo Demos 20nm TSVs
Globalfoundries has demo-ed TSVs on its 20nm LP process. GloFo uses a “via-middle” approach to TSV integration, inserting the TSVs into the silicon after the wafers have completed the Front End of the...
View ArticleComms, Not PC, Driving IC Industry
“It is not the PC driving the up-cycle but communications solutions embedded in silicon,” said Wilf Corrigan, Founder and CEO of LSI Logic in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 18th 2000. The...
View ArticleNXP Gets UK Money For GaN Research
NXP, controlled by a private equity consortium led by New York-based KKR, has been given £2 million from the UK’s Regional Growth Fund to pursue GaN research. The investment, announced by chief...
View ArticleThe 3D Printed House Made From Moondust
Sometimes you read stuff that you couldn’t make up – like 3D printing a house on the moon using moondust as the basic building material Apparently the European Space Agency and Lord Norman Foster’s...
View ArticleSoaring Demand For TSV Packaging.
Can there really be soaring demand for 3D packaging? That’s what AMS says, and it’s backed up the claim with €25 million to establish a production line for it. AMS is using through-silicon-via...
View ArticleFable: The Patriotic Element
141 years ago the Russian chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev left a space below silicon in his periodic table of the chemical elements. 127 years ago, a chemistry professor realised that in...
View ArticleEpitaxial Wafers For £18 Each
Wafers, one-inch in diameter, of epitaxially formed silicon are now readily available in Britain. Their availability was announced simultaneously in the UK and US by the Dupont group of companies. So,...
View ArticleDo Si Start-Ups Have A Future?
We’ll all be selling tickets to Theme Park Europe if we don’t start building the new companies of the future, Lawrence Johns of Amadeus Capital Partners told the Silicon South-West Viva Entrepreneurs!...
View ArticleDo Si Start-Ups Have A Future?
We’ll all be selling tickets to Theme Park Europe if we don’t start building the new companies of the future, Lawrence Johns of Amadeus Capital Partners told the Silicon South-West Viva Entrepreneurs!...
View ArticleEd Goes Crook
‘Growth, I’ve got to find growth or I’m out of here – The Brats have made that very clear,’ writes Ed in his diary referring to the 20-something year-old super-sharpies who monitor his company for its...
View Article25% of Intel’s Q2 Output To Be 22nm
Intel is ramping 22nm finfets in three fabs and expects to add a fourth in Q4, it was said at the analyst meeting following the company’s Q1 results. The 22nm ramp in fast and Intel expects that 25% of...
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