Industry News
$275 billion sales for 2001 global chip market
Worldwide sales of semiconductors in the fourth quarter 2001 were unchanged from the third quarter at $60 billion, ending three quarters of double digit declines.
[ + ]Indium phosphide chips hit 80Gbps
Inphi Corporation has announced that it has demonstrated demultiplexers running at a data rate of greater than 80 gigabits per second (Gbps).
[ + ]Intel's quandary over hyper-threading future
Hyper-threading is something of a mystery, and Intel are still unsure how to release it successfully to the industry.
[ + ]Silicon chips posses multi-faceted properties
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that silicon wafers can be easily made into tiny explosives that could be used to chemically analyse samples in the field or serve as power sources for tiny electronic sensors the size of a speck of dust.
[ + ]Sapphire technology to improve chip efficiency
Using light beams in place of metal wires, engineers at Johns Hopkins University, US, have devised a cost-effective method to speed up the way microchips talk to each other.
[ + ]Worst over for Australian PC market
The PC market in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, showed encouraging growth from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2001, indicating that the worst may be over for the region's markets, according to IDC.
[ + ]Asia-Pacific is Intel's biggest market
The Asia-Pacific region has eclipsed the Americas as the greatest source of revenue for Intel.
[ + ]Intel processors boost performance
Intel have just announced seven new mobile processors built on Intel's industry leading 0.13-micron fabrication process.
[ + ]World's smallest microchain drive
A microchain that closely resembles a bicycle chain, except that each link could rest comfortably atop a human hair, has been fabricated at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
[ + ]2002: the road to recovery
Gartner Dataquest analysts believe 2002 will be the transition year to recovery, with the most likely scenario of a sustainable recovery for the semiconductor device and capital equipment industries occurring in the second half of this year.
[ + ]Increase in demand for Aussie IT execs
The crisis of confidence in Australian business circles may be over with demand for executive employees in December rising for the first time in five months, according to the E.L Executive Demand index.
[ + ]Embedded memory to grow
Worldwide revenues for high-complexity, cell-based designs, containing at least one or more blocks of embedded flash, are forecast to experience a compound annual growth rate of 26% from 2000 to 2005, according to Cahners In-Stat.
[ + ]High-temperature superconductors unlike any other material
An experiment by researchers at the University of Maryland's Centre for Superconductivity Research and at the University of Toronto provides the first clear evidence that electrons in high-temperature superconductors behave differently than electrons in any other material.
[ + ]Tiny fans to cool electronics
Research engineers at Purdue University are developing tiny, quiet fans that wiggle back and forth to help cool future laptop computers and other portable electronic gear.
[ + ]Chemical sensor based on experimental physics
Scientists have found evidence of the long-suspected phenomenon that tiny electrical currents are produced when molecules interact with metal surfaces.
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