Austin, Texas — With the difficult back-end transition to low-k dielectrics and copper still fresh in chip makers' minds, this week's Semicon West, the equipment industry's biggest annual gathering, ...

For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is ...

In recent weeks, there have been a number of tributes heralding the invention of the transistor, which was invented by Bell Lab scientists in 1947 and has spawned the modern generation of electronics.

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer of ultra-pure silicon. The bottom-most layer, also known as the front end ...

While previous p-bit proposals included an analog component and DAC, the new research offers an all-digital p-bit design. “The reliance on analog signals was holding back progress,” said Shunsuke ...

Organic electrochemical transistors could be better than conventional inorganic devices for certain uses, but have been held back by performance issues. The solution could be to build up these organic ...

Way back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and '50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes -- big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially glorified ...