Applied Materials Introduces Deposition Systems for Angstrom-Era Logic Chips

Chipmaking systems create the smallest atomic-scale features in 3D Gate-All-Around transistorsPrecision™ Selective Nitride PECVD preserves ...
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Cerebras Systems Unveils 1.2 Trillion Transistor Wafer-Scale Processor for AI

Modern CPU transistor counts are enormous -- AMD announced earlier this month that a full implementation of its 7nm Epyc "Rome" CPU weighs in at 32 billion transistors. To this, Cerebras Technology ...
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New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust

For decades, the semiconductor industry has been laser-focused on shrinking silicon transistors, but Peking University researchers believe the future might lie in changing materials entirely. In a ...
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Intel Nehalem-EX to be its highest-performing chip

Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip-maker Intel Corp. on Tuesday unveiled details of its upcoming eight-core 2.3-billion transistor processor, the Nehalem-EX, for the expandable high-end server market that ...
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Koreans create magnetic transistor that could turn every CPU into an FPGA

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul have created a transistor that is switched by magnetism, rather than electricity. This could lead to computer chips that ...
InfoWorld

Intel eight-core server chip is Nehalem EX

Intel confirmed that the upcoming eight-core, 2.3-billion-transistor processor it plans to detail next week is the Nehalem EX chip, but the company declined to offer details of the chip ahead of the ...