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Dec 14, 2021
The trick to a more powerful computer chip? Going vertical.
Electrons typically flow through transistors in parallel to the chip surface, but what if the transistors were flipped sideways?
May 05, 2011
Intel to Mass-Produce New 3-D Transistors for Faster, More Efficient Computer Chips
In a move that could remake the microchip industry, Intel announced Wednesday it will start mass-producing the first three-dimensional silicon...
Apr 30, 2011
Custom-Built Smartphone Chips Optimized for Most Popular Apps
UC San Diego researchers have struck upon a novel idea that could make Android phones 11 times more efficient than...
Apr 19, 2011
Aug 31, 2010
Tiny, Five-Nanometer Silicon Oxide Switches Could Create Single Chips With Terabyte Storage
Even with great strides being made regularly in the realms of nanotech and materials science, Moore’s Law – the notion...
Feb 23, 2010
World’s First Junctionless Transistor Could Revolutionize Chip Industry
Transistor junction, what’s your function now? Irish researchers at the Tyndall National Institute have fabricated the world’s first junctionless transistor,...
