NextBigFuture

BREAKTHROUGH CMOS N-Type Diamond Transistors

Diamond CMOS needs symmetrical doping control like we have for semiconductor silicon and diamond n-MOS is needed. The n-channel diamond MOSFETs are demonstrated. This work will enable the development ...
NextBigFuture

SemiQon Cryogenic Transistor Breakthrough for 1,000X Less Heat and Uses 99.9% Less Power

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon-based quantum processors to make future quantum computers more affordable, ...
Digi Times

North American startup Zinite pursues the real 3D chip with thin-film transistor innovation

Zinite is seeking to shake up the semiconductor industry through innovations in transistor architecture to achieve more chip performance density. Founded by Gem Shoute, Douglas Barlage, and Kenneth ...

IBM says new sub-one-nanometer architecture paves the way for the next decade of chip design

IBM Corp. today unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-one-nanometer chip technology, a research breakthrough that it ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The History Of CMOS

Since CMOS has been around for about 50 years, a comprehensive history would be a book. This blog focuses on what I consider the major transitions. Before CMOS, there was NMOS (also PMOS, but I have ...
Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 3): NMOS, PMOS Silicon Design Using a Web Browser

Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...
EurekAlert!

Scientists smash record in stacking semiconductor transistors for large-area electronics

The six stacks of semiconductors for hybrid complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microchips advances miniaturization and topples the previous record of two stack King Abdullah University of ...

IBM says it can fit nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip - why the milestone matters

IBM says it can fit nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip - why the milestone matters ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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