{"id":92827,"date":"2019-06-28T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/diamond-on-silicon-chips-are-running-at-100-gigahertz-and-can-also-make-power-chips-for-directing-10000-volts"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:43:07","slug":"diamond-on-silicon-chips-are-running-at-100-gigahertz-and-can-also-make-power-chips-for-directing-10000-volts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/diamond-on-silicon-chips-are-running-at-100-gigahertz-and-can-also-make-power-chips-for-directing-10000-volts","title":{"rendered":"Diamond on silicon chips are running at 100 Gigahertz and can also make power chips for directing 10,000 volts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diamond-on-silicon-chips-are-running-at-100-gigahertz-and-can-also-make-power-chips-for-directing-10000-volts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eetimes.com\/document.asp?doc_id=1329663&page_number=2\" target=\"blank\">Diamond computer chips running at 100-GHz have<\/a> been demonstrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akhansemi.com\/home.html\" target=\"blank\">Akhan Semiconductor.<\/a> They are currently using design rules in the 100s of nanometers.<\/p>\n<p>Developers are focusing on power applications on 12-inch wafers. They hope to drive down the costs of production with higher volumes. Power devices are moving into pilot production at a fab. They are using the fab-lite model\u2014that is produce small- to medium-sized runs themselves. They will then transfer their process to foundries when they ramp up into volume production.<\/p>\n<p>They have some customers for diamond MEMS devices\u2014specifically for capacitive switching arrays used to dynamically tune antenna in high-end smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 Diamond computer chips running at 100-GHz have been demonstrated by Akhan Semiconductor. They are currently using design rules in the 100s of nanometers. Developers are focusing on power applications on 12-inch wafers. They hope to drive down the costs of production with higher volumes. Power devices are moving into pilot production at a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}