Researchers have built a computer from scratch without silicon, a “milestone” in showing that it is possible to one day ...

Gallium nitride, a semiconductor renowned for its efficiency and high-speed capabilities, has long been recognized as a ...

Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the first working CMOS ...

Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State.

Curious about how transistors remember data and make memory storage possible? Dive into the basics of memory at the transistor level, where each tiny transistor plays a crucial role in storing and ...

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Editor's take: The University of Arizona could become the birthplace of the world's first petahertz-speed transistor. If successful, this research work could mark the dawn of a new era in ...

A new examination of Apple partner TSMC's Arizona facility shines a spotlight on how the U.S. bet on domestic chipmaking is colliding with labor shortages, cost overruns, and global dependencies.

The WSE-3 (Wafer Scale Engine) chip developed by Cerebras Systems currently holds the title of the world’s fastest wafer-scale AI chip, which integrates a large number of cores and transistors ...

Researchers in China have developed a two-dimensional transistor that could redefine the future of microchips. Described as thinner than a single atom and capable of operating 100 times faster than ...

A fter the transistor came of age, there was still room for the venerable vacuum tube in the burgeoning world of electronics. But even though that world is getting bigger, its parts are getting ...

A finished device: Optical microscope image of the transistor (left) and an ultra-scaled vertical nanowire (right). (Courtesy: Y Shao) A new transistor made from semiconducting vertical nanowires of ...