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PC Magazine November 22, 2004 John R. Quain	Changing Chip Architecture The more semiconductor components, you can pile on top of one another on a single block, the greater the cost savings. That's the idea behind the 3D chip technology from Matrix Semiconductor.
InternetNews October 21, 2005 David Needle	SanDisk Buys Matrix SanDisk said it has reached an agreement to purchase Silicon Valley neighbor Matrix Semiconductor for approximately $250 million in stock and $12 million cash.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz	Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger	Flurry of Floating-Body Memory Research, but Still No Products Intel and Toshiba show off their competitors to Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Neil Savage	Hynix Makes No-Capacitor DRAM Z-RAM memory design might find a spot in the competitive DRAM market
The Motley Fool February 9, 2009 Anders Bylund	Profitable Poetry In Silicon Motion Net profits and strong new sub-markets add up to a bright future for the computer memory market in Taiwan.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2011 Anders Bylund	Meet 1 Winner in the Memory Wars Rising prices plus larger unit volumes equals big profits.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors.
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 February 2005 Singh & Thakur	Chip Making's Singular Future Beleaguered chip makers are counting on single-wafer manufacturing, which makes ICs on one wafer at a time, to cut costs and get chips to market faster.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Z-RAM to Take on DRAM with Hynix Deal The Swiss memory company Innovative Silicon says it has struck a deal to license its technology to the No. 2 maker of standalone DRAM memory chips, Hynix Semiconductor, based in Inchon, South Korea. The technology, called Z-RAM could double the density of Hynix's memory chips.
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.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2002 Patricia Panchak	Technologies Of The Year -- Molecular Electronics Hewlett-Packard breakthrough could extend limits of silicon chips.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Gurnett & Adams	Merging the Functionalities of Silicon, and III-Vs: Two Promising Approaches One of the least flexible rules in electronic design is the need to keep silicon devices, and compound semiconductor devices separate. Two new developments are now threatening to make this rule partly or entirely obsolete.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Clint Boulton	Japan's Tech Giants Mull Own Semi Business Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas are thinking about building a chip business that would make them more independent.
Scientific American August 2005 Steven Ashley	Making Light of Silicon Scientists at UCLA and Intel have obtained coherent photons of light from silicon. This low cost alternative to "exotic" semiconductor materials currently used as lasers will pave the way for many technological advances.
InternetNews August 3, 2004 Michael Singer	IBM's New Semiconductor Technique The company develops a processor that can regulate and adapt its own actions in response to changing conditions and system demands.
Technology Research News January 14, 2004	Hardy molecule makes memory In what may mark an advance in the quest for ever-higher data-storage density, researchers from the University of California have shown that a type of porphyrin molecule holds up under temperatures as high as 400 degrees Celsius and after being written to and read from trillions of times.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Silicon Surfaces Speed Circuits Researchers have devised a way to use the chemistry of silicon surfaces to make smaller chip features.
Chemistry World December 3, 2007 Michael Gross	Flash Memory Enters Another Dimension Researchers in Korea and Australia have used stacked layers of gold nanoparticles to boost the storage density of flash memory.
BusinessWeek May 16, 2005 Pete Engardio	Where The Valley's Chips Are Born The importance of the silicon umbilical cord connecting America to Taiwan is hard to overstate. The island's "foundries" -- factories that make chips for other companies on a contract basis -- dominate what has become a $16 billion global industry.
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 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 July 30, 2010 Anders Bylund	This Stock Has Cornered a Niche Massive resources versus myopic expertise is an unfair fight -- the smaller guy wins.
InternetNews January 9, 2008	Hynix Sees DRAM Rebound Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory maker, predicts a comeback for the computer-chip market as demand remains strong.
InternetNews April 6, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Chip Sales Continue to Suffer The end of 2008 was a real bad time for chip makers. It didn't get much better in early 2009, either.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John McHale	Raytheon technique for growing semiconductor compounds on silicon to provide affordable ICs to DOD Experts at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are demonstrating that affordable, high-performance circuits for military applications can be produced by growing semiconductor compounds directly on silicon.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Nanowire Computer Circuits Debut Researchers have found a way to paint molecular-size circuitry onto glass. The method is potentially very low-cost, and could eventually be used to make computer chips that pack extremely tiny and thus powerful circuits.
InternetNews June 12, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Gartner: Cloud, New Chip Tech May Spur Rebound What will cloud computing and 3D chip manufacturing do for the industry? Quite a bit.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 David Needle	Chips Finish Year on a High Global figures released by the Semiconductor Industry Association show that worldwide sales of computer chips continued on a record pace.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2006 John Teresko	Technologies Of The Year -- Defying Moore's Law IBM researchers have built the first complex electronic integrated circuit around a single carbon nanotube molecule, a new material that shows promise for enhancing performance over today's standard silicon semiconductors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007	Silicon Wafer Shipments Experience Growth for the Fifth Consecutive Year Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 20 percent in 2006 when compared to 2005 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG).
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.
InternetNews June 10, 2010	Chip Shortages to Ease by Year End: Gartner At the moment, chip makers are scrambling to meet demand that is outpacing their production capacity, but research firm Gartner expects the market to begin to return to balance later this year.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2011 Arunava De	IBM 2 Steps Closer to Making Serious Money on Chips With the removal of major hurdles, IBM scientists can now look forward to the next-generation memory chip.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2011 Gabriel Perna	Slow Growth Ahead in Semiconductors Things could ramp down after a record 2010, according to a report.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Tilted trenches turn out tiny wires Researchers from UCLA, UCSB, and Cal Tech have found a way to make arrays of closely-spaced and crossed metal and semiconductor nanowires.
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
The Motley Fool February 14, 2008 Tim Beyers	Hot Flashes From Silicon Motion Silicon Motion, the Taiwanese supplier of controllers for flash memory, may be a Valentine's Day 'hot, hot, hot!' investment choice.
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...
PC Magazine April 1, 2009 John C. Dvorak	Chip Biz Buzzwords It's no surprise that everyone in the Valley is so comfortable with insider and exclusionary code words, many of which make no sense.
The Motley Fool February 24, 2010 Anders Bylund	Will This Bidding War Go On? How much more can Microchip pay for Silicon Storage? Penny-pinching investors will soon find out.
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.
InternetNews April 12, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IBM Cures CPU Sprawl With 3D Stacking Instead of spreading out the circuits, IBM researchers say they've found a way to stack them up.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Guizzo & Santo	The Runners-up: More Earthshaking Chips These 13 great little chips didn't make our list -- mainly because we ran out of space in print. And, well, one isn't even a chip
InternetNews March 13, 2009 Andy Patrizio	The Chips Were Down, Down, Down in 2008 Even with the stinker of an economy it wasn't a great year to be in the semiconductor business. The 2009 outlook isn't that hot either.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2010 Eric Jhonsa	Time to Start Worrying About Chip Stocks? The July semiconductor earnings numbers were great, but warning signs also emerged.
InternetNews February 3, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Rambus Unveils High-Performance Mobile Memory The litigious memory maker tries to bounce back with new memory aimed at high performance applications on mobile and handheld devices.
InternetNews May 11, 2010	PC, Memory Prices Seen Rising in 2010 Latest check of the supply chain shows demand for memory surging, with the likely result of driving up for prices for PCs throughout 2010.
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.