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, ...

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have created an ultrathin transistor unlike any current design. Instead of larger 3-D layers of semiconductors, as in ...

A scientific team has managed to stack 41 layers of semiconductors, multiplying the density of the circuits by six, without ...

Boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs, claiming to have created a new type of transistor that can dissipate almost zero heat. This transistor promises to slash energy usage in future ...

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

A bioelectronic engineer, Klas Tybrandt of Linkoping University in Sweden, has built the first "ion transistor" computer chip, which uses chemical ions and biological molecules as charge carriers ...

N vidia's ever-optimistic CEO, Jensen Huang, has revealed more details of the company's next-gen AI platform at the same GTC ...

Yup, Nvidia has become the world's first $5 trillion company. Truly, these numbers are getting silly. Of course, it really, ...