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A single modern computer chip can pack in tens of billions of transistors, each smaller than a virus

Transistors etched into the latest processor designs now measure just a few nanometers across, placing them well below the physical size of a common virus particle. That comparison is not metaphorical ...
New Scientist

Magnets join race to replace transistors in computers

STACKS of nanomagnets could make future supercomputers run leaner. Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power-hungry transistors may enable intensive number-crunching tasks like ...
Ars Technica

IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip ...
GCN

A car computer with 77 billion transistors is replacing more than a dozen separate domain controllers under the hood, and the single performance figure that makes consolidating ...

There are roughly 70 to 100 separate computers inside a typical modern car. They control the brakes, the mirrors, the dashboard, the lane-keeping camera, the parking system, and the heated seats. Most ...
GCN

A new laptop chip now shipping in stores packs 30% more transistors into the same space, and the tiny wiring trick hidden on the underside of the silicon that made it possible ...

Every few years a chip arrives that works completely differently from anything that came before it, and most people buying the laptop that contains it never know. That moment has arrived again. A new ...
Forbes

IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion 3D-Stacked Transistors

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. IBM has announced a major breakthrough in semiconductor technology, unveiling the world's ...
Phys.org

Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors ...