The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) released a request for information (RFI) to solicit feedback from stakeholders on the Energy Efficiency Scaling for Two Decades (EES2) Initiative and the draft EES2 Research and Development (R&D) Roadmap that accompanies this RFI. The roadmap outlines the technology R&D needed … [continued]
Multi-institutional team led by Berkeley Lab could help chip manufacturers race ahead of Moore’s Law
The biggest US chipmakers are slashing billions of dollars from planned capital spending — just when the US government has passed a law to subsidize a huge increase in domestic chip manufacturing capacity.
The whole “computer on wheels” idea that pretty much started with Tesla has now become the standard of the industry. The Porsche Taycan, for instance, has more than 8000 computer chip components baked in at the factory and Porsche fully expects that number to double or even triple by the … [continued]
Intel has announced that it will invest more than $20 billion to build two new factories while also establishing an epicenter for advanced chipmaking in the Midwest. The two new leading-edge chip factories will be located in Ohio and will help boost production to meet critical demand for advanced semiconductors. … [continued]
A new crowdfunding campaign aimed at creating the world’s most efficient semiconductor chip has just been launched on Kickstarter. The MicroPower Chips team has a rather ambitious goal of raising $250,000 within 30 days, but it may indeed be able to do so. Within just 1.5 days, it has already … [continued]
