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Transistors the tiny parts with a big role

Transistors are small components found in nearly every electronic device, yet they play a massive role in how modern ...
PC Gamer

Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible

It's the semiconductor version of one potato, two potato. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For 60 years, Gordon Moore's ...
Hackaday

Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold as. Outside of dedicated platforms like Mouser, Digikey and LCSC you pretty ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

UChicago scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

The ability to make a very miniature on/off switch changed the world. These tiny switches, known as transistors, make up the basis of all modern computing—they drive your cell phones, your bank ...
Live Science

Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
Ars Technica

Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors

The growing energy use of AI has gotten a lot of people working on ways to make it less power hungry. One option is to develop processors that are a better match to the sort of computational needs of ...
news.ucsb.edu

Next-gen 3D transistors transform energy-efficient electronics

In a significant advancement for semiconductor technology, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have unveiled novel three-dimensional (3D) transistors utilizing two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Their ...
HotHardware

New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust

For decades, the semiconductor industry has been laser-focused on shrinking silicon transistors, but Peking University researchers believe the future might lie in changing materials entirely. In a ...
EDN

GaN transistors fit standard Si packages

Infineon is advancing industry-wide standardization by offering its CoolGaN Generation 3 (G3) transistors in silicon MOSFET packages. The IGD015S10S1 100-V transistor will be housed in a 5×6-mm ...
EDN

A new platform for thermally stable DRAM peripheral transistors

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips contain many other transistors besides the access transistor to enable full operation of the DRAM memory. These peripheral transistors must meet stringent ...
New Atlas

'Self-assembling' electronics: A wild new manufacturing process

A remarkable proof-of-concept project has successfully manufactured nanoscale diodes and transistors using a fast, cheap new production technique in which liquid metal is directed to self-assemble ...
TechSpot

MIT's 3D nanoscale transistors use quantum tunneling design to bypass physical limits

Why it matters: Silicon transistors are great, but just like any other object in the physical world, they are held back by a few limitations. The laws of physics put a bottleneck on performance and ...