Silicon transistors performed better at higher temperatures and soon supplanted germanium devices in most applications. Why was the transistor such a big deal?

The transistors can be gated independently to create scalable logic circuits. In addition, the polymer used in the device shortens the distances over which ions need to travel, making the transistors ...

The MOS transistor—the modern transistor used in computer chips—is similar in operation to the one that Shockley first proposed. It consists of a semiconductor through which current can flow, and an ...

Efficiency: Transistors use less power than vacuum tubes, leading to more energy-efficient electronics. This is crucial for battery-powered devices like smartphones and laptops.

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon ...

The researchers fabricated their stretchable transistors using a high-resolution inkjet printing system and subsequently used them to develop a smartwatch-compatible in-sensor computing module.

Researchers from MIT and the University of Colorado have fabricated a 3-D transistor that's less than half the size of today's smallest commercial models. To do so, they developed a novel ...

The transistor has been evolved by a team of researchers with the Vienna University of Technology. This was achieved by tapping into the Germanium. The team developed a new, adaptive transistor ...

At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive.

Beyond overall chip performance, the new transistor architecture will address another critical issue: If processors continue to use conventional transistors, then future devices could one day ...

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors.… ...