It was late afternoon at a conference for the Institute of Radio Engineers. Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at ...

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the rules. They've created a cutting-edge transistor using gallium-doped indium ...

The Nobel-prize-winning wonder material graphene has been broadly touted as a more-than-promising replacement for silicon in VLSI CMOS chips. Interest levels are so high that there are whole ...

A joint collaboration between Yale and IBM is investigating how novel computer memory devices may offer optimal information storage. The team, which published its findings in the journal Advanced ...

South Korean manufacturer Samsung Electronics announced this week that it has begun mass production of a new kind of memory chip that stores information by melting and freezing tiny crystals. Known as ...

Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore’s law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). The ITRS—which has been produced ...

Interest in neuromorphic computing has spurred research into new types of memory devices that can replicate the function of biological neurons and synapse. A recent paper reviewing the current state ...

Engineers puzzling over which materials should form the basis of the next generation of flash memory chips appear to have had the answer close to hand. It has been lurking in their computer’s CD ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...