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Every few years, we hear about someone building a computer from first principles. This doesn’t mean getting a 6502 or Z80, wiring it up, and running BASIC. I’m talking about builds from… ...

The machine is constructed from 1094 transistors, with logic in an NMOS configuration, using 10 K pullup resistors. This is not a fast way to build a circuit, but it is very compact.

The first transistor, invented at Bell Labs in 1947, was a handmade device about half an inch tall—enormous by today’s ...

BERKELEY — New work by researchers at UC Berkeley could soon transform the building blocks of modern electronics by making nanomagnetic switches a viable replacement for the conventional transistors ...

Intel has been weak there because its current chips use too much power. Chips with the 3-D transistors will be in full production this year and appear in computers in 2012.

Plus, InGaAs transistors can operate at relatively low voltage, meaning they could enhance a computer's energy efficiency. So InGaAs might seem like a promising material for computer transistors.

VTFET stands for Vertical-Transport Nanosheet Field Effect Transistor, and it works by laying the transistor parts perpendicular to the silicon wafer. In contrast, a FinFET transistor will arrange ...

When applied to transistors, the same method predicts that a double-gate transistor can continue to perform well at gate lengths as short as 10 nanometers, and perhaps even shorter, Lundstrom said.

Intel has been weak there because its current chips use too much power. Chips with the 3-D transistors will be in full production this year and appear in computers in 2012.