In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object ...

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“It is the fastest, most efficient transistor ever,” a Peking University statement claims. That is a confidence boost for a paradigm-shifting semiconductor technology breakthrough. The silicon ...

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the rules. They've created a cutting-edge transistor using gallium-doped ...

First 2D semiconductor with 1000 transistors developed at EPFL Switzerland: Redefining energy efficiency in data processing Developed by EPFL researchers, the first large-scale in-memory processor ...

Founded in 1955, Shockley Semiconductor was the brainchild of William Shockley. When he was ready to leave Bell Labs, he decided to form a company to build transistors. Funded by Beckman ...

Within 10 years, the TSMC executives said we'll need a 1-trillion-transistor GPU, which is a GPU with 10x as many transistors as today. NVIDIA's new Blackwell B200 AI GPU has 208 billion ...

With semiconductor device features now atomic lengths, the world has its answer: build smaller transistors. This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the ...

The transistor, one of the earliest electronic components to be built using a semiconductor, is an extremely versatile device. In its most popular form it can function as an electronic switch.