The current industry standard is chips with 7-nm transistors, with some high-end consumer devices, such as Apple’s M1 processors, beginning to make the move to 5 nm. And experimental chips have ...

University of Utah electrical engineers fabricated the smallest plasma transistors that can withstand high temperatures and ionizing radiation found in a nuclear reactor. Such transistors someday ...

One device at Bell has transistors that do the work of 44 vacuum tubes. The whole thing is housed on a panel no bigger than the page of a novel. The earliest transistors were skittish and unreliable.

Intel has suggested silicon transistors can only keep shrinking for another five years. The computers in our pockets will probably feel the effects later than other types of computing devices ...

IBM, meanwhile, has already begun to experiment with 5-nm chips. Some of the new transistors developed by the researchers halve that again, measuring a record-setting 2.5 nm wide.

All existing transistors are based on the use of semiconductor junctions formed by introducing dopant atoms into the semiconductor material. As the distance between junctions in modern devices ...

The team has also developed an innovative hot-emitter transistor (HOET), achieving an ultralow sub-threshold swing of less than 1 mV/dec and a peak-to-valley current ratio exceeding 100.