Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

EPC’s first seventh-generation eGaN® device enters mass production, delivering up to 3× better performance than silicon ...

Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon ...

IBM claims to have developed the world’s smallest working silicon transistor. At 6 nanometers in length (a nanometer, nm, is one-billionth of a meter), the new transistor is at least 10 times smaller ...

Shrinking computers, faster phones, and smarter gadgets all rely on one tiny component: the transistor. Invented in the 20th century, it’s what powers nearly every modern electronic device.

If the claim is accurate, it would mean that China has bleeding-edge tech that could rival chips from Intel and TSMC. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

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Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (SiGe HBTs) represent a critical advancement in semiconductor technology, integrating a silicon base with germanium to markedly enhance frequency ...

Over the past 70 years, the number of transistors on a chip has doubled approximately every two years – according to Moore’s Law, which is still valid today. The circuits have become correspondingly ...

The two techniques, strained silicon and silicon on insulator (SOI), have been brought together for the first time in a technique called strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI), IBM said.