Motorola develops a dual-gate transistor in which the two gates can switch on and off independently--a twist the company says could increase performance and reduce power consumption. Michael Kanellos ...

Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors will be one of the chip industry’s biggest design inflections since the introduction of FinFETs in 2010. Innovations in materials engineering provide GAA transistors ...

A transistor – a word blend of "transfer" and "resistor" – is a fundamental component of today's advanced electronics. Essentially, a transistor, as one of the foundational elements of modern ...

For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated circuits. They knew that the laws of physics had set a 5-nanometer ...

At an event today in San Francisco, Intel announced one of the most important pieces of semiconductor news in many years: the company’s upcoming 22nm processors will feature a fundamental change to ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the workload that defines today’s semiconductor scaling. Whether in hyperscale data centers training foundation models or at the network edge executing ...

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DRAM makes up the bulk of non-volatile memory in computer systems. Much has been done lately to mix non-volatile storage with DRAM. However, DRAM’s performance and capacity still win out when it comes ...

* The transition to 3-D continues the pace of technology advancement, fueling Moore’s Law for years to come. * An unprecedented combination of performance improvement and power reduction to enable new ...

The chipmaker says that the futuristic transistor, designed to let electricity flow more freely inside chips, is moving closer to reality. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where ...