Transistor articles

ASML says AI's effect on chipmaking will unfold over the next 10 to 15 years, not overnight

Crystal ball: ASML is the only company that makes the EUV lithography machines needed to produce the world's most advanced chips. Its CEO, Christophe Fouquet, says the AI boom will play out over 10 to 15 years and that we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Meeting that demand will depend on better optics, vertical chip designs and a sprawling supplier network that can't be scaled up quickly. That makes ASML's roadmap a useful gauge of how far AI hardware can go, and how fast.

Moore's law is hitting a wall, so researchers are stacking silicon chip layers instead of shrinking them

Forward-looking: For years, the chip industry has chased better performance by shrinking transistors and squeezing more of them onto a flat slice of silicon. That strategy is running into hard limits. A group at the University of Illinois thinks the next gains will come not from going smaller, but from going vertical.

New terahertz technique lets engineers see inside running processors in real time

MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon for faster next-gen wireless devices

University of Arizona scientists unveil breakthrough petahertz-speed transistor

Rising power density and heat threaten the future of advanced semiconductors

Jensen Huang anticipates 20% performance boost from gate-all-around transistors

What was the first all-transistor television ever released?

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

3D-printed semiconductor-free logic gates could soon power cheap electronics devices

Scientists create edible transistor using an unlikely material: toothpaste additive

WTF?! A humble toothpaste additive has provided the key to a major breakthrough in the field of edible electronics. Researchers have successfully built the first fully edible transistor using copper phthalocyanine – a crystalline blue pigment commonly employed as a whitening agent in toothpaste formulations.

Light takes over: Researchers demonstrate logic gates without electricity

MIT scientists develop transistor with nanosecond switching and billion-cycle durability

In a nutshell: Back in 2021, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made waves by creating an entirely new type of ferroelectric material. Now, those same researchers have one-upped themselves by using that substance to build a transistor that utterly smokes the conventional chips powering today's gadgets – with nanosecond switching speeds and incredible durability.

Reconfigurable transistors can be programmed to execute different functions

IBM demonstrates a nanosheet transistor that can withstand boiling nitrogen

Solid-state thermal transistors control heat flow using an electric field

MIT researchers unveil faster method of "growing" 2D transistors on top of wafers

Scientists create wood transistor that runs at about 1Hz

Intel finalizes design for Intel 20A and Intel 18A process nodes

A new method to grow 2D materials paves the way for 2D transistors

Forward-looking: An international team of scientists have published research on a novel way to grow 2D materials using a method that could bring 2D transistor-based electronics to market sooner rather than later.

TSMC announces a handful of 3nm process nodes, N2 coming in 2025

Samsung says commercial production of 3 nm chips will start in the coming weeks

Chinese researchers create the world's smallest transistor gate

Intel patent suggests 'stacked forksheet transistors' could enable sub-3nm chips

Adaptable transistors could reduce CPU transistor count by 85 percent