Advanced plasma-based etching is a key enabler of Moore's Law that observes that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles nearly every two years. It is the plasma's ability to ...

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.

The project uses serially programmable temperature sensor TCN75 that comes in a SO-8 packaging to produce a small thermometer board. The project uses serially programmable temperature sensor TCN75 ...

Practically every electronic device you own has something in common: they contain semiconductors, which are also known as microchips. Microchips are miniaturized integrated circuits, each designed to ...

For decades, transistors - the heart of our computer chips - have been getting smaller and smaller. As a result, the electronic components in many devices can be made ever more compact, faster and ...

The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s take ...

In 1965, Gordon Moore from Fairchild Semiconductor, the legendary microchip pioneer, was asked to speculate on the future of integrated circuits. He looked around the lab, where engineers were ...

Your beloved pooch has a tendency to run off. It’s time to pay a visit to the vet to get her microchipped. On the morning of your appointment, the alarm on your smartphone wakes you up. The house is ...

The so-called Chips+ bill passed the U.S. Senate on Tuesday and has a good chance of becoming law as it moved on to the House. As fears of a confrontation with China are heightening, negotiations that ...

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