Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...

The two techniques, strained silicon and silicon on insulator (SOI), have been brought together for the first time in a technique called strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI), IBM said.

Deboki Chakravarti: You’ve probably seen pictures of those old computers. Not like the bulky ones that Sam and I used when we were younger. I’m talking about computers like the Electrical Numerical ...

For decades, transistors - the heart of our computer chips - have been getting smaller and smaller. As a result, the electronic components in many devices can be made ever more compact, faster and ...

On a physical level, a transistor’s internal functioning is very complex, but, in practice, using it in some simple experiments is quite easy and affordable for everyone. A transistor allows to create ...

The measurement of an integrated circuit (the chip). The driving force behind the design of integrated circuits is miniaturization, and the technology boils down to the never-ending goal of "make the ...

TWO YEARS shy of its 60th birthday, Moore’s law has become a bit like Schrödinger’s hypothetical cat—at once dead and alive. In 1965 Gordon Moore, one of the co-founders of Intel, observed that the ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has previewed a new chipmaking process that will facilitate the production of faster, more efficient data center processors. TSMC’s 1.6-nanometer process, ...

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