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The Future of the Microprocessor Business

Customization and speed-to-market will drive the industry from the bottom up

Imagining the Future Of Technology

Big Players in Chip Design Buy Into India

And chip making will soon follow

The Race to the Bottom

Can a polymath engineer beat IBM to market with the world's first consumer nano device?

EE Job Market Brightens

Though hiring remains focused, there's more of it

Just One Word—Plastics

Organic semiconductors could put cheap circuits everywhere and make flexible displays a reality

The dawn of organic electronics

Organic semiconductors are strong candidates for creating flexible, full-color displays and circuits on plastic

Moore's Law Meets Its Match

By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement—which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density—will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics

Winner: Flat, Cheap, and Under Control

Applied Materials' new polishing technology could be the key to the coming generation of microchips

Chips Go Vertical

Looking for new ways to make ultrafast chips, designers explore the third dimension

Chip Making's Singular Future

Beleaguered Chip Makers Are Counting On Single-Wafer Manufacturing, Which Makes ICs On One Wafer At A Time, To Cut Costs And Get Chips To Market Faster

The Silicon Solution

In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing

Intel Tries, Tries Again

Having come up empty with its 2.5G-cellphone chip, the chip giant needs to score big with its 3G alliance

10 Tech Companies for the Next 10 Years

From undersea robots to power electronics, technology's future belongs to the bold.

Chip Making's Wet New World

A thin layer of water between the lens and the wafer will extend the life of chip making's dominant technology, and may be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to an industry battling the limits of physics

Blades Have The Edge

Superslim machines are fomenting a quiet revolution in the server room

Light From Silicon

For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials

The New Indelible Memories

It's a three-way race in the multibillion-dollar memory sweepstakes

Expressway To Your Skull

PlayStation 3's ability to blast data between chips is one of the secrets to a mind-bending gaming experience

Winner: Multimedia Monster

Cell's nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip

Indium phosphide ICs unleash the high frequency spectrum

My New Laptop

Cheap Chips for Next Wireless Frontier

Silicon in 60-GHz band promises speedy downloads

Quantum Leap For Quantum Computing

Lead teams converge around ion chips

Beating Sony At Its Own Game

The Temptations And Pitfalls of Hacking The PlayStation Portable