Scientists just measured the smallest possible contacts for future computer chips

The rise of AI has created an almost insatiable appetite for computing power. Training and running AI systems requires vast ...
New Scientist

Record-breaking IBM chip uses trick to cram in 100 billion transistors

IBM's latest chip packs in twice as many transistors as the current state-of-the-art chip by adding a second layer of silicon ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Taiwan computer chipmaker pledges another $100 billion to expand US chipmaking capacity

Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the U.S.

A Tiny Chemical Trick Could Lead to Much More Powerful Computer Chips

A new plasma chemistry breakthrough could help manufacturers build the next generation of smaller, faster, and more powerful ...

Scientists Overcome a Major Electrical Bottleneck in Next-Generation Semiconductors

A new two-dimensional semiconductor structure sharply reduces resistance where electrical regions meet. The result points ...

IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1-Nanometer Chip Technology

In a major breakthrough, IBM revealed the world’s first semiconductor chip technology built on a sub-1 nanometer chipmaking process. For comparison, the process uses transistor features smaller than ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

Modern computer chips contain billions of transistors etched onto a fingernail-sized piece of silicon. In fact, a typical smartphone processor now contains on the order of 15 billion transistors—a ...