Morning Overview on MSN

Forget transistors: an intelligent material computes like a brain

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...
Popular Science

The small, mighty, world-changing transistor turns 75

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the modern world began 75 ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Forbes

IBM Goes Vertical To Scale Transistors

At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive. The new ...
Morning Overview on MSN

MIT finds a new way to pack more transistors on a chip

For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is running into hard physical limits. A new approach from MIT aims to sidestep ...
CNET

Intel transistors fight the power

The chipmaker will shed light on a series of changes it's making to transistors that ideally will keep a lid on the growing problem of power consumption. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...
PC Gamer

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

With smaller process nodes becoming increasingly more expensive to achieve, chip manufacturing engineers are turning to other ways to increase the number of transistors that can be packed into a ...