IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Future transistor stacking plans start to diverge

IBM chooses a different path from Intel, Samsung, and TSMC ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

World’s first: IBM packs 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized sub-1 nm chip

IBM has introduced what it calls the world’s first sub-1 nanometer semiconductor technology, unveiling ...

IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion 3D-Stacked Transistors

IBM just unveiled the world's first sub 1-nanometer chip: 100 billion transistors. IBM also says they've produced functioning ...
Network World

IBM unveils sub-1 nanometer chip with nearly 100 billion transistors

It's the world’s first sub-1 nm chip technology, IBM claims. The fingernail-size chip is built with IBM's new transistor ...
PBS

Lesson 4

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .
PBS

Lesson 3

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...

Atomic-level simulations predict transistor scaling limits

As the global semiconductor industry enters the so-called 2-nanometer process era, the actual size of transistors—the core ...
Marketplace

75 years ago, the transistor ignited the fire of modern innovation

The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The ...
AZoNano

Shrinking 2D Nanoribbons to 35 nm Boosts Transistor Current

Researchers showed that narrowing the monolayer TMD nanoribbon transistor channel to about 35 nm increased the median ...
Ars Technica

Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the world’s smallest

Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamental barrier. Below about five nanometers, quantum effects make their behavior unpredictable. That’s led to research into ...
PBS

Lesson 4

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .