Neowin News Feed for: Transistors

Researchers find hope for smaller, more energy-efficient non-silicon computer transistors

Usman Khan Lodhi — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:00:01 +0000

MIT researchers have found that InGaAs could potentially replace silicon to create smaller and more energy-efficient transistors. A paper detailing the findings will be presented this month. Read more...

Scientists find new semiconductor materials that could replace silicon in the future

Faisal Ahmed — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:50:01 +0000

While silicon is the de facto standard of semiconductor industry, it is not perfect. The search to find its replacement: something that can be made smaller and is more efficient, continues. Read more...

Carbon could replace silicon in next-gen transistors

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:33:01 +0000

US engineers have developed a technique that replaces silicon with carbon to make next-generation semiconductors. Boffins at Princeton University said that the electronics industry has pushed the capabilities of silicon - the material at the... Read more...

Nanowire Transistors Faster than Silicon

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:46:59 +0000

Nanowires are made with regular crystal structures and uniform electronic properties - a level of predictability is essential for manufacturing high-performance electronics. Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least... Read more...

AMD overhauls transistors, chips

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:42:14 +0000

Thanks to xStaindx for submitting this article in the BPN...Advanced Micro Devices is combing through the scientific cookbook in its quest to improve its chips. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker is examining how to incorporate a... Read more...

AMD to outline plans for the transistors of the future

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:16:59 +0000

AMD SAYS IT WILL SHOW OFF a bunch of technical achievements "critical", it reckons, to the creation of next-generation transistors and memory cells at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), that kicked off yesterday... Read more...

"Hammer" to hold 100 million transistors

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:38:41 +0000

Thanks [AMD]-SimGuy for the heads up. A chip with that many transistors is currently considered unusual. But when Hammer chips emerge in the first half of 2003, processors of that complexity will become increasingly common.... Read more...

Intel unfurls experimental 3D transistors

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:15:08 +0000

Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up. At a presentation in Japan this week, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker plans to... Read more...

IBM's 210GHz transistors pump up chips

Darren Bolton — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:09:36 +0000

IBM will announce Monday that the fastest silicon transistors ever made are ready to appear on chips designed to speed up computer networks. The company's Semiconductor Division has combined many of its... Read more...