Examples like Intel's Loihi chips tend to get competitive performance out of far lower clock speeds and energy use, but they ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated that a single, standard silicon transistor, the ...

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various ...

William Shockley improved on this design with his junction transistor, a three-layer sandwich of different types of semiconductor. The diagram illustrates the basic design of an NPN junction ...