Hackaday

Unusual Circuits In The Intel 386’s Standard Cell Logic

Intel’s 386 CPU is notable for being its first x86 CPU to use so-called standard cell logic, which swapped the taping out of individual transistors with wiring up standardized functional blocks. This ...
PC Gamer

Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible

It's the semiconductor version of one potato, two potato. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For 60 years, Gordon Moore's ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

UChicago scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

The ability to make a very miniature on/off switch changed the world. These tiny switches, known as transistors, make up the basis of all modern computing—they drive your cell phones, your bank ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Science Daily

Scientists built a transistor that could leave silicon in the dust

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the rules. They've created a cutting-edge transistor using gallium-doped indium ...
Hackaday

Simulating High-Side Bootstrap Circuits With LTSpice

LTSpice is a tool that every electronics nerd should have at least a basic knowledge of. Those of us who work professionally in the analog and power worlds rely heavily on the validity of our ...
Live Science

China's '2D' chip could soon be used to make silicon-free chips

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Ars Technica

Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors

The growing energy use of AI has gotten a lot of people working on ways to make it less power hungry. One option is to develop processors that are a better match to the sort of computational needs of ...
HotHardware

New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust

For decades, the semiconductor industry has been laser-focused on shrinking silicon transistors, but Peking University researchers believe the future might lie in changing materials entirely. In a ...
EDN

A two transistor sine wave oscillator

Figure 1 shows a variation on a sine wave oscillator, it uses just two transistors and a single variable resistor to set the frequency. Figure 1 Just a couple of components are needed for a simple ...
C&EN

It's a Small, Small World: The Chemistry of Microchip Fabrication

Your beloved pooch has a tendency to run off. It’s time to pay a visit to the vet to get her microchipped. On the morning of your appointment, the alarm on your smartphone wakes you up. The house is ...