Illustration: Bryan Christie Design
The Threat of Semiconductor Variability
As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows
Can Chips Keep Their Cool?
Increasing speed but not power consumption is just one challenge for the next eight years
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The Intel-ARM Core War
Competition between Intel and ARM chips in everything from PCs to mobile phones is heating up
DemoFall 2011: A "Google Docs" for Circuit Design
Hardware designers, welcome to the cloud
Superconductor Logic Goes Low-Power
Energy-efficient superconducting circuits could be key to future supercomputers
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Stealth Start-up Takes Aim at Transistor Power
SuVolta's new transistor design halves power consumption, but details on the scheme are still hazy
The Origins of Intel's New Transistor, and Its Future
A Q&A with Chenming Hu, coinventor of both the FinFET and its likely competitor
Intel Transistors Enter the Third Dimension
The chip maker's next-generation microprocessors will use multigate transistors to tackle the energy leakage problems that come with tiny features
Radiation Hardening 101: How To Protect Nuclear Reactor Electronics
Radiation in a damaged nuclear reactor can wreak havoc on electronics. Physicist Dan Fleetwood explains how vital systems are designed to withstand worst-case scenarios
Advanced Chip Packaging Satisfies Smartphone Needs
Clever chip packaging means mobile devices can be smaller and smarter
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A Foucault Pendulum on a Chip
A MEMS microgyroscope mimics a 19th-century instrument's mechanism to boost abilities of inertial guidance systems
Magnetic Logic Attracts Money
DARPA funds spintronic and nanomagnet research teams to create low-power nonvolatile logic
3-D Printing Could Make Smartphone Chips Cheaper
Eoplex comes up with slim chip packaging fix
EUV's Underdog Light Source Will Have Its Day
Discharge-produced plasma might beat its laser-based competitors
Sehat Sutardja: An Engineering Marvell
Open up today's mobile electronic devices and you'll likely see the imprint of Sehat Sutardja, the beating heart of Marvell
Circuit Could Swap Ultracapacitors for Batteries
MIT engineers are developing a circuit that gets enough out of ultracapacitors to make them usable in medical implants
Walkie-talkies for Chips
Sony's wireless chip connections say sayonara to wires and pins
Intel and Micron Double the Capacity of Flash Memory
Smaller features will usher in instant-on computers
On-Chip Routers Could be a Choke Point for Future Chips
Interconnect delays dwarfed by slow-downs at sluggish routers in future many-core chips, say researchers
Design Challenges Loom for 3-D Chips
Through-silicon vias promise smaller, smarter chips--but not yet