Silicon transistors performed better at higher temperatures and soon supplanted germanium devices in most applications. Why was the transistor such a big deal?

Efficiency: Transistors use less power than vacuum tubes, leading to more energy-efficient electronics. This is crucial for battery-powered devices like smartphones and laptops.

The MOS transistor—the modern transistor used in computer chips—is similar in operation to the one that Shockley first proposed. It consists of a semiconductor through which current can flow, and an ...

The transistors can be gated independently to create scalable logic circuits. In addition, the polymer used in the device shortens the distances over which ions need to travel, making the transistors ...

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon ...

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors.… ...

Concerns surfaced this summer about whether the semiconductor transistors used throughout the on-board spacecraft electronic systems could withstand the radiation. The Jupiter system is ...

At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive.

2D transistor offering 40% faster speeds and lower energy use may soon disrupt the global chip market - if China can successfully scale production.

Researchers from MIT and the University of Colorado have fabricated a 3-D transistor that's less than half the size of today's smallest commercial models. To do so, they developed a novel ...

Purdue University researchers are among the first to build a gate – what could be a quantum version of a transistor, used in today’s computers for processing information – with qudits. Whereas qubits ...