A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claims to have developed the first fully-programmable 16-bit microprocessor made entirely of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The ...

IEEE Spectrum said the team’s discovery opens the way for implantable devices, on-skin computers, brain-machine interfaces, and soft robotics. According to the article, UK-based Pragmatic ...

IBM demonstrates Personal Area Networks (PAN), transmitting data through the human body. A prototype PAN system allows users to exchange electronic business cards by shaking hands. Says IBM: “A kiss ...

The first four paragraphs of an article written by XMOS Semiconductor’s VP of Marketing Richard Terrill in Chip Design magazine do an excellent job of framing the “FPGA-versus-microprocessor” pseudo ...

(Reuters) - Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger inherited a troubled company that had lost its edge in manufacturing skills and had ceded to rivals the hugely lucrative markets for chips used in mobile phones and ...

Now is the time to invest in programmable logic devices (PLDs), and there’s no better way to do that than through Altera and Xilinx. Here are six reasons why. Logic is used to manage the interchange ...

Triscend Corp. will be providing the ammunition and Hitachi Ltd. will be supplying the firepower as the two companies join forces to take on PLD makers, ASIC vendors and others rushing to fuse ...

The Dutch electronics company Philips, a maker of Webcams and cordless phones, has invented a battery-powered, programmable drug capsule it calls the "iPill." The multivitamin-size "intelligent pill" ...