Microelectronics is currently undergoing major changes: The industry is working on promising new materials and chip ...

IBM unveiled a 0.7 nm NanoStack chip carrying 100 billion transistors through an ambitious three-dimensional architecture ...

IBM has pushed transistor density to a new extreme, fitting nearly 100 billion transistors onto a single chip roughly the ...

For nearly two decades, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy-efficient ...

Air is absolutely essential for human life, but for certain semiconductors, it is a deadly poison. The moment these materials ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside ...

Rather than continuing to shrink components along a flat plane, IBM is stacking transistors vertically. That change comes as ...

We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow, and ...

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Transistors that can change properties are important elements in the development of tomorrow's semiconductors. With standard transistors approaching the limit for how small they can be, having more ...