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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?
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...
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...
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...
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,...