A transistor is a switch with no moving parts. A small voltage on the gate controls a much larger current between source and drain, and a chip built from billions of them can hold and process an ...

Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing ...

At its core, a lot of modern technology depends on relatively simple patterns to receive and relay information. Incidentally, living things have also functioned this way for billions of years—a ...

In July 2026, social media posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump confused the words "transistor" and "transgender" during a speech criticizing the CHIPS and Science Act, a 2022 bipartisan effort ...

Direct imaging shows that the contacts through which current flows into atomically thin transistors can be scaled down to just a few nanometres in length. Read the paper: Directly probing the carrier ...

IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few ...

IBM on Thursday unveiled the first chip created using its latest semiconductor technologies, one that holds nearly 100 billion transistors in a fleck of hardware no bigger than your fingernail.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. IBM has announced a major breakthrough in semiconductor technology, unveiling the world's ...

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up. IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the ...

As the global semiconductor industry enters the so-called 2-nanometer process era, the actual size of transistors—the core components of semiconductor chips—still remains above 10 nm. How much smaller ...

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors ...

Transistors in some circuit configurations work together and, frequently, need to be matched. This is so common that you can sometimes find ICs that are just a pair of transistors made with the same ...