LETS SAY YOU have a modern far sub-micron fab, and you need to move a truck sized tool from one side of the clean room to the other. Standard construction equipment doesn’t work, it is too dirty, so Carpenter Crane Hoist made a line of hoists that are very clean.
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WOULDN’T IT BE nice if you could stamp out semiconductors like a printing press? Molecular Imprints is making a technology called imprint lithography that lets you do just that, stamp out chips.
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THE LONG DELAYED Intel Calpella platform is starting to make the occasional public showing, and like the famous hedgehog, if it sees it’s shadow, we get 6 more weeks of summer. We managed to snap a picture of one, you should be seeing lots more later this year.
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ON JUNE 23, 2006, AMD announced that they would be building a fab in upstate New York. Three years later at Semicon, Global Foundries made the official announcement that their Fab 2 will have a groundbreaking on July 24, 2009.
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INTEL DROPPED A bombshell on the market today with a little bullet point and a few carefully chosen words. Opening up Atom to third parties to interface with willy-nilly went from impossible to product in the space of one slide.
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SEAGATE IS NOT ready to throw in the towel on high performance magnetic drives yet, and to show they are serious, Seagate just launched a line of 600GB SAS-6 drives. Take that SSDs, your puny SATA interface is no match for SAS-6 or Fiber Channel.
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AMD JUST DOUBLED the count on their 6-core “Istanbul” Opteron CPUs, going from 5 to 10 SKUs. The new parts are in the SE and HE line, on the top and bottom of the speed and power curves respectively.
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GOOGLE IS FINALLY launching an operating system called Chrome OS. The big loser in all of this is Microsoft, but there are two others that will also take a huge hit, Intel and AMD.
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HANDS UP ANYONE who didn’t see the Google Chrome OS coming, no points if you are an MS CxO? MS has only itself to blame for the nuclear missile that may very well have ended the company, they simply produced crap for way too long.
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ONE OF THOSE press releases that snuck by under the radar answered a year old question about solar panels, would the huge Applied Materials panels live up to their early promise? Based on the recent IEC certification of their 5.7m^2 panels, the answer is yes.
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AFTER LITERALLY YEARS of silence, the new Monkey Island game is out. Yes, mere weeks after revealing it’s existence at E3, you can now get the first episode from Telltale games.
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WITH EFFICIENCY GAINS at the CPU level becoming harder and harder to find, a lot of work has turned to the platform to squeeze out a few more watts here and there. During Research At Intel Day (R@ID), Intel was showing how to bunch I/Os intelligently for large system power savings.
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IN CASE YOU haven’t noticed over the past two or three years, Intel is very interested in sensor technology. During Research At Intel Day a few weeks ago, they were showing off technology to make air quality sensors mobile and ubiquitous.
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THERE HAS BEEN a lot of false information floating around about TSMC and their 40nm process. It ranged from the overly optimistic to hopelessly wrong, so lets clear the air, it is OK now.
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FIREFOX 3.5 IS OUT. Not much more to say, the browser that more than half of you use to read this with is now much better.
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