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Nanostructures Bring Gains for Phase Change Memory

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Engineers in the United States and Taiwan say they have demonstrated a promising new twist on nonvolatile memory that’s small enough, miserly when it comes to energy, and works at low enough voltage that it could boost the abilities of future processors. volts and switch in about 40 nanoseconds while consuming less than 1.5 picojoules.

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3M and LG Chem enter into NMC patent license agreements; cathode materials for Li-ion batteries

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Under the agreement, 3M grants LG Chem a license to US Patents 6,660,432 (Paulsen et al. ); 6,964,828 (Lu and Dahn); 7,078,128 (Lu and Dahn); 8,685,565 (Lu and Dahn); and 8,241,791 (Lu and Dahn) and all global equivalents including in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, China and Europe. Earlier post.)

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VisIC and ZF partner on R&D effort to develop EV inverter based on GaN semiconductor technology; focus on 400V

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The focus of the joint efforts will be on 400-Volt driveline applications, covering the largest segment of the electric vehicle market. VisIC Technologies works with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) as a foundry source for the proprietary D 3 GaN process. Source: VisIC.

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Stanford team reports new low-cost, non-precious metal catalyst for water splitting with performance close to platinum

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volt battery, said Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford. nickel oxide/nickel heterostructures formed on carbon nanotube sidewalls (NiO/Ni-CNT nano-hybrids). The researchers were able to make the electrocatalysts active enough to split water at room temperature with a single 1.5-volt and Stephen J.

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3 Ways 3D Chip Tech Is Upending Computing

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Even though Zen 2 and the new Zen 3 processor cores are both made using the same Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. volts) so current would be low enough to simplify the package. volts for use on the compute tiles, and each compute tile had to have its own power domain in the base tile.

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