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IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Michael Riordan	The Silicon Dioxide Solution How physicist Jean Hoerni built the bridge from the transistor to the integrated circuit.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007	Happy Birthday, Fairchild As Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. celebrates its 50th anniversary, we recognize the contributions and advancements they have made to electronics.
Chemistry World February 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Hafnium Oxide Helps Make Chips Smaller and Faster Intel and IBM have announced that they will use dramatically different materials to build smaller, faster transistors for their next generation of chips.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2011 Alex Planes	Accelerating Your Returns Understanding this law of technological progress is vital for any high-tech investor.
InternetNews April 15, 2005 Michael Singer	Moore's Law Relevant But Not Forever The debate continues as the 40th anniversary of Moore's article approaches.
PC Magazine May 18, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Forty Years of Moore's Law Hogwash The entire semiconductor business appears to be fear-based, and nobody wants to get off the 18-month treadmill. When you look at any technology, the pace is always set by competition.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Cliff Edwards	Intel: Supercharging Silicon Valley Intel's founding trio fashioned the building block for the digital revolution
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sarah Adee	Winner: The Ultimate Dielectric Is...Nothing IBM packs wires in vacuum to speed chips and save power.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2010 Michael Kanellos	Why Solar Is, and Isn't, Like the Chip Industry Will there be an Intel of solar? Or a lot of Packard-Bells?
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Michael Riordan	The Men Who Made the Microchip Two books spell out Silicon Valley's origins: The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin... Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 by Christopher Lecuyer...
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa	Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Ahmed & Schuegraf	Transistor Wars Rival architectures face off in a bid to keep Moore's Law alive. In May, Intel announced the most dramatic change to the architecture of the transistor since the device was invented.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2005 Dan Bloom	Intel's Optical Breakthrough The chipmaker may open new tech frontiers by teaching silicon and light to cooperate.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland	3-D Chips Grow Up In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law - and move beyond it.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Brian R. Santo	25 Microchips That Shook the World A list of some of the most innovative, intriguing, and inspiring integrated circuits
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Tekla S. Perry	Gordon Moore's Next Act A look at Moore's place in the history of the semiconductor industry, and how he is now spending his billions in a philanthropy program to tackle biodiversity, the future of engineering education, and the secrets of the galaxies.
Industrial Physicist Theis & Coufal	How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering.
PC World September 12, 2002 James Niccolai	Tomorrow's CPU: Wireless Link Inside Intel finds new ways to shrink, speed chips, plus build in radio functions.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 Rich Duprey	Profiting From Moore's Law Intel develops a new chip that roughly doubles the number of transistors on a chip. Whether it's in the chip makers themselves, or in the picks and shovels of the industry, investors stand to make big profits from tiny chips.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al.	The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s.
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer	HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics.
IEEE Spectrum December 2006 Michael Riordan	How Bell Labs Missed the Microchip The man who pioneered the transistor never appreciated its full potential
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Loyd Case	Intel's Next-Generation Core2 Microprocessor Why Intel's new Penryn processor could be a major breakthrough for computing.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2005 Jack Uldrich	Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy Intel's push into the realm of all things nano stretches beyond "Intel Inside" and broadens the company's long-term potential. Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Fairchild Turns 50 This month Fairchild Semiconductor celebrates 50 years in the business.
InternetNews August 17, 2009	IBM Looks to DNA for Chip-Building Tech Joint research with Caltech yields some astonishing results in the realm of nanoscale semiconductor components.
PC Magazine July 1, 2003	Future Tech: 20 Hot Technologies to Watch 20 of the most promising technologies of tomorrow. And since we're all gadget freaks, we couldn't help but show you some of the prototype products we found along the way.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Brian R. Santo	Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Jack Uldrich	IBM to Chips: Cool It! Big Blue's new chip-cooling technique could keep Moore's Law on track. IBM's system, while not yet ready for commercial production, is reportedly so efficient that officials expect it will double cooling efficiency.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye	Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors
Chemistry World February 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	First Graphene Transistors May Herald Future of Electronic Chips Researchers claim to have created the world's first practical transistors cut from ribbons of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee	Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.
Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 John Dodge	Let's get Small Nanotechnology raises the bar for semiconductors as chips near single-digit nanometer proportions.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng	The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Masters of Memory Swiss firm Innovative Silicon crams 5 megabytes of RAM into the space of one. Their chip is called called Z-RAM, and if it grabs even a little piece of the on-chip memory market, it will change the ground rules for microprocessor design and will quickly become a company to be reckoned with.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Liu et al.	MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Miguel Miranda	The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Single electrons perform logic The ultimate in transistors, which turn on and off in response to a flow of electricity, is a device that can be tripped by a single electron. Researchers from Hokkaido University have put together an AND logic circuit made from four single-electron tunneling transistors.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 David Needle	HP Claims Chip Advance Researchers say nanotechnology has let them pack many more transistors into chips.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Jack Uldrich	IBM and Intel Install a New Gatekeeper Changes to transistor components will keep Moore's Law running smoothly. Which companies stand to come out on top? Investors, take note.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
IEEE Spectrum October 2011 Ozpinec & Tolbert	Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher Meet the material that will supplant silicon in hybrid cars and the electric grid
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Sally Adee	The Fastest, the Smallest, and the Strangest at IEDM This year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, as usual, is largely a race to the bottom
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Plastic transistors go vertical Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have brought inexpensive, practical organic transistors a step closer to your grocery cart by devising a pair of processes that form small, vertical transistors from layers of printed polymer.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2006 Jack Uldrich	IBM's Teeny Tiny Transistors Big Blue's new nanocircuit suggests that carbon nanotubes will soon be employed in hybrid computer circuit devices.