Impossible Objects, a 3D printing and materials company, announced in May that it has raised $4.1 Million in Series B funding. Chicago-based OCA Ventures, which specializes in equity investments in ...

Ultra-high performance custom silicon and patent-pending PartyLine communications architecture delivers 1 GHz clock performance with simplified NoGates design process. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.–June 16, 2003 ...

The competition between ASICs and FPGAs may have taken a new turn today, with the introduction of MathStar Inc.’s field programmable object array (FPOA) architecture, which the company promises offers ...

“Conventional silicon devices are limited by the size of the silicon wafer, which is typically less than 12 inches in diameter,” said John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering and ...

The Earth's gravity has always been a huge restriction to building the largest and most ambitious structures. But scientists are already making strides to take down this barrier by doing so in orbit.

Donor reports this as "a section of a pure silicon bar made by a process that goes under several names. Hot wire; iodide; and Van Arkel come to mind. Silicon is but one of the elements that can be ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By carving specks of single crystal silicon from a bulk wafer and casting them onto sheets of plastic, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated ...