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IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice
It’s not the smallest transistor on the market, however the boffins at IBM have constructed the tiniest carbon nanotube transistor thus far. It’s nine nanometers in size, making it one nanometer smaller than the presumed physical limit of silicon transistors. Plus, it consumes less …
IBM shows off 155GHz graphene transistor within the name of DARPA research
IBM may be cautious about touting graphene as a a silicon killer, but that hasn’t stopped it from pushing the production of ever faster graphene transistors. With the new demonstration of a 155GHz graphene transistor, the firm successfully outdid its previous record-setting efforts …
Mini disks with slanted edges could save your data, not the music industry
No, not those MiniDiscs . Those we’re talking about, created by researchers on the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, are much, much smaller — lower than 300 nanometers across. The tiny disks of magnetic material are formed using glass spheres which are themselves about 300nm in diameter. They may …
Adafruit’s Internet of factors Printer combines your love of data, receiptsLove staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit's got your back with its latest project. The net of items (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. You may print such things as Twitter feeds, news briefs or sports scores using its open source software. Putting the box together requires some soldering and an Arduino, but
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon offSanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership within the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather then 20-nanometer cells within the production process. Shrinking the dimensions is something, but SanDisk's new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.