Microchip

By making alterations to the underlying structure of the wonder material graphene, scientists at the University of Sussex have extended its capabilities even further to create the tiniest microchips yet.

​​​​​​MIT’s ongoing efforts to make flying drones ever smaller has passed a new milestone with the latest version of its Navion navigation chip. Essentially the brains for a drone the size of a honeybee, the chip measures is about the size of a Lego minifigure’s footprint.

​​For years a subset of the transhumanist community, called “grinders”, has been experimenting with implanting electronics and microchips into their bodies. Now a tech company based in Wisconsin is set to offer all its employees the option of having a microchip implanted in their hands.​

​MIT researchers have developed a new way to make smaller circuits that would allow more of them to be crammed onto microchips. The new technique could make patterns smaller than 10 nm by combining several processes already used, which means they could be implemented relatively easily and cheaply.

As part of DARPA's ICECool-Applications research program, Lockheed Martin is developing a way of cooling high-powered microchips from the inside using microscopic drops of water.​

Scientists at Stanford University are predicting that stanene, a new 2D material, could conduct electricity with one hundred percent efficiency at room temperature and lead to computer chips that are faster, consume less power, and won't heat up nearly as much.

Microchip Technologies has developed the world's first gesture recognition chip based on measuring changes in a 3D electric field.

IBM has created an optical chip that is capable of transferring one trillion bits of data per second.

In a new, more efficient approach to solar powered microelectronics, researchers have produced a microchip which directly integrates photovoltaic cells.

A newly-developed microchip allows for antenna arrays that could replace satellite dishes.

June 24, 2005 Jack Kilby, the man who invented the Integrated Circuit – also known as the microchip – died on Monday at age 81. It’s not every day that a man of

Philips Semiconductors has launched a range of fully-integrated single chip stereo radios for use in low voltage and low power applications such as mobile phone