Clarification: A story Monday about a shortage of highly purified silicon used in computer chips and solar cells noted that the material was 99.99999 percent pure, a level referred to as "seven-nines.

For ASIC material choices in medical applications, biocompatibility is a major consideration. This is especially true for ...

Industry’s first use of ruthenium in high-volume production enables copper chip wiring to be scaled to the 2nm node and beyond and reduces resistance by as much as 25% New enhanced low-k dielectric ...

Silicon chip manufacturers like Intel and TSMC are constantly outdoing themselves to make ever smaller features, but they are getting closer to the physical limits of silicon. “We already have very, ...

A computer chip is a compact form of electronic circuit, also characterized as an integrated circuit (IC), that is one of the basic units of most electronic equipment, particularly computers. These ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--New research findings at MIT could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell phones and other ...

Applied Materials is the largest supplier in the world of wafer fabrication equipment for semiconductors. It holds the broadest portfolio, in our view, which we think should enable it to maintain its ...

Chip equipment maker Applied Materials is opening a second development center in California's Silicon Valley to help its customers make faster, more powerful nano-scale processors. The company said ...

“Generally, such antiferromagnetic materials are not easy to control,” Nuh Gedik says, pictured in between Tianchuang Luo, left, and Alexander von Hoegen. Additional MIT co-authors include Batyr Ilyas ...

Signage with logo at the Silicon Valley headquarters of semiconductor company Applied Materials, Santa Clara, California, August 17, 2017. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Our theme on ...