Globalfoundries has unveiled the 22FDX platform, said to deliver FinFET-like performance and energy efficiency at a cost comparable to 28nm planar technologies. It claims the process could provide an optimal solution for IoT, RF connectivity and networking products.The fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) process has an operating voltag...

As process nodes shrink, the problem of feature variations is increasing. Looking to address the issue, Applied Materials has unveiled the Centris Sym3 etch system. The tool is said to feature an entirely new chamber and to enable what the company calls atomic level precision manufacturing.Centris Sym3 uses the company's True Symmetry techn...

Renesas Electronics and Audi have established a strategic relationship which not only addresses the traditional automotive control areas powertrain, chassis, body and safety, but also newer applications, including automated drive, connected car and the electrical vehicle.Ricky Hudi, head of electric/electronic development at Audi, said: "I...

Plessey Semiconductors has announced that it will be leading a £1.3million government funded project in conjunction with AIXTRON Ltd and Bruker Nano Surfaces Division. Plessey claims this project will accelerate high volume manufacturing of its LEDs created with GaN-on-Silicon technology.The department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

Researchers at MIT have unveiled a series of sensors, memory switches, and circuits that they hope to encode into common human gut bacterium. It is said these basic computing elements will allow the bacteria to sense, memorise, and respond to signals in the gut, with future applications that might include the early detection and treatment of inflam...

Black phosphorous is emerging as a serious challenger to graphene as researchers look for materials which might replace silicon in future electronic devices. However, chemists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have developed a semiconducting material in which individual phosphorus atoms are replaced by arsenic. And, in a collabo...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method which they say allows electronics devices to be cooled efficiently using a graphene-based film with a thermal conductivity capacity four times that of copper.Professor Johan Liu's team showed a couple of years ago that graphene can have a cooling effect on si...

IBM Research, in association with Globalfoundries and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE), has produced the first 7nm test chips with functioning transistors. The achievement is a product of IBM's $3billion five-year investment in R&D, announced in 2014.With progress...

Building on their previous collaborations, STMicroelectronics and the French Institute of Materials, Microelectronics and Nanosciences have announced the launch of a joint research laboratory to develop the next generations of high-reliability, ultra miniature electronic components.Called the Radiation Effects and Electrical Reliability (REER)...

Peratech has announced that its Quantum Tunnelling Composite (QTC) pressure-sensitive sensors have been incorporated into Flitchio, a smartphone case with built-in game controller. QTC is a screen printable polymer which changes its electrical resistance with applied force.Instead of having control interfaces on the screen that obscure the scre...