We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow ...

If any internal barriers get thinner than a nanometer, too much current will tunnel through when the transistor is off. It might be useful, however, to design a processor to use quantum mechanics ...

Moore's Law was an off-hand prediction that came to be one of the prevailing laws of modern computing — but what did it predict, and can we still rely on it?

A new breakthrough in China could power the future of silicon-free chips, further revolutionizing how we make microprocessors ...

That's mammoth by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit on a single computer chip. It was nevertheless an amazing piece of technology. It was built by Walter Brattain. Before ...

Transistors also flipped on instantaneously ... engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was ...

Intel's (INTC) efforts to restore the chip giant to its former glory may hinge on a new manufacturing process the company calls 18A. Short for 18 angstroms — an angstrom is equal to 0.1 nanometers — ...

Montecito exceeds the billion-transistor count because the Itanium-2 processor architecture is itself complex — a 64-bit processor intended for server applications — and the Montecito ...

Since the early 1990s, transistors — the tiny switches that drive everything from smartphones to supercomputers — have ...

Researchers have unveiled a silicon-free microprocessor technology that could be the future of microprocessors and have ...

Quantum mechanics, first considered in the early 1900’s, and formalized by 1925, opened a fundamentally new view for western physics.  The world is whole, not a collection of parts. The ...