One hurdle has been finding a process for making smaller features in a production line where you irradiate materials quickly and with absolute precision to make the process eco ...

Phononic circuits are emerging devices that can manipulate sound waves (i.e., phonons) in ways that resemble how electronic ...

(Nanowerk News) Defective computer chips are the bane of the semiconductor industry. Even a seemingly minor flaw in a chip packed with billions of electrical connections might cause a critical ...

Microchip Technology has introduced the MPLAB® PICkit™ Basic in-circuit debugger, aimed at making its advanced programming and debugging capabilities more accessible to engineers at all skill levels.

With its speedy processor and increased RAM, the improved tool claims to be exceptionally fast and flexible. With its speedy processor and increased RAM, the improved tool claims to be exceptionally ...

Chandler, AZ. Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the MPLAB ICD 4, an in-circuit programming and debugging development tool for Microchip’s PIC microcontroller (MCU) and dsPIC digital signal ...

One of the reasons why robots and artificial intelligence programs — even very sophisticated ones — do not qualify as living things is because they lack the capacity for self-repair. Fry a machine's ...

Researchers have developed a chip-based quantum random number generator that provides high-speed, high-quality operation on a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Microchip Technology Inc. shares tumbled by more than 11% Friday after the maker of memory and micro-controller semiconductors cut its revenue forecast and warned that ...

NIST researchers have developed a technique that can simultaneously locate individual electrical flaws in multiple microcircuits on the same chip. (S. Kelley/NIST) Defective computer chips are the ...