Computer chips
Surprising turns in magnetic thin films could lead to better data storage
June 18, 2013
MIT researchers discover efficient control of magnetism in chiral ferromagnets.
Also labeled: electronics, Magnetism, Materials science, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Computation
Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor
January 3, 2013
New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.
Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominance
December 10, 2012
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
Also labeled: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Indium gallium arsenide, Microchips, Silicon, Transistors, Microsystems, Faculty, Moore's Law, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Research, Semiconductors, Computing, electronics, Manufacturing, Computer science and technology, Electrical engineering and electronics, Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Simulating tomorrow’s chips
April 13, 2012
A new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.
Chips as mini Internets
April 10, 2012
The data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements.
Testing unbuilt chips
March 9, 2012
A new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.
Microchips’ optical future
February 15, 2012
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States.
Research update: Sharpening the lines
December 14, 2011
New advance could lead to even smaller features in the constant quest for more compact, faster microchips.
Important step toward computing with light
November 23, 2011
Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips.
Mimicking the brain, in silicon
November 15, 2011
New computer chip models how neurons communicate with each other at synapses.
Building chips from collapsing nanopillars
September 1, 2011
By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.
The future of chip manufacturing
June 30, 2011
MIT researchers show how to make e-beam lithography, commonly used to prototype computer chips, more practical as a mass-production technique.
Toward faster transistors
May 13, 2011
MIT physicists discover a new physical phenomenon that could eventually lead to the first increases in computers’ clock speed since 2002.











