Silicon on insulator (SOI) is a chip manufacturing technique that shrouds transistors in a cloak of silicon dioxide to shield them from the wafer substrate in order to control electrons more ...

A rule-breaking, colorful silicone that could conduct electricity. Previously only thought to be insulating, a shift in the ...

With AI being the biggest change in IT infrastructure since the Dot Com boom, it was no surprise that at the annual Cisco ...

Microchips are in pretty much all of our electronic devices—if it’s got a plug or a battery, it’s probably got a chip. For the past 60 years, most of these have been made of silicon. But new ...

Researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and Manchester have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step closer.

CEA-Leti and Soitec are to use the natural attributes of fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) to enhance the cybersecurity of integrated circuits. “With FD-SOI’s advantages against laser fault ...

The "silicon-on-sapphire" chip is partly transparent, Shirriff notes, and was designed to function as an interface between HP's interface bus (HP-IB) and the Z80 processor, which acts as the ...

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After switching to Apple silicon by adopting the M2 Ultra chip in 2022, the Mac Pro is widely expected to receive an upgrade to the as-yet-unannounced M4 Ultra chip this year. By the time the M4 ...

The first device to be equipped with the M5 chip is expected to be a new iPad Pro, which will enter mass production in late 2025, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

The fabrication started with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers that have a 400 nm-thick silicon layer. Lithography and dry etching were followed by doping for metal oxide semiconductor capacitor ...