Back-side power delivery

18 Dec 23

In 2024, Intel Hopes to Leapfrog Its Chipmaking Competitors

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

For the past five years, Intel has lagged behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung in advanced chip manufacturing. Now, in an attempt to regain the lead, the company is making a bold—and risky—move, introducing two novel technologies in its desktop and laptop Arrow Lake processor, due out in late…

09 Jun 23

Intel Is All-In on Back-Side Power Delivery

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

There’s a lot of risk in deploying new technology for cutting edge computer chips. So Intel executives were understandably cautious in executing a plan that next year simultaneously introduces both a new transistor—RibbonFET—and a new way of powering it—PowerVia.To take some of the risk out of this high-wire act, the…

24 May 23

Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

There was a time, decades really, when all it took to make a better computer chip were smaller transistors and narrower interconnects. That time’s long gone now, and although transistors will continue to get a bit smaller, simply making them so is no longer the point. The only way to…

02 Jan 23

Big Trouble in Little Interconnects

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Interconnects—those sometimes nanometers-wide metal wires that link transistors into circuits on an IC—are in need of a major overhaul. And as chip fabs march toward the outer reaches of Moore’s Law, interconnects are also becoming the industry’s choke point. “For some 20-25 years now, copper has been the metal of…

In 2024, Intel Hopes to Leapfrog Its Chipmaking Competitors

Intel Is All-In on Back-Side Power Delivery

Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

Big Trouble in Little Interconnects

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law