Morita Akio

It was an insight that co-founder Morita Akio would apply over the years as the tiny company grew to become the world giant Sony. Morita used this approach most famously with the legendary Walkman. No ...

Quantum technologies have reached a critical stage in their growth

Quantum information science is no longer confined to chalkboards and controlled laboratory tests. You now see working quantum ...
Hackaday

Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold as. Outside of dedicated platforms like Mouser, Digikey and LCSC you pretty ...
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 ...
Live Science

Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
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 ...
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 ...
news.ucsb.edu

Next-gen 3D transistors transform energy-efficient electronics

In a significant advancement for semiconductor technology, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have unveiled novel three-dimensional (3D) transistors utilizing two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Their ...
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

GaN transistors fit standard Si packages

Infineon is advancing industry-wide standardization by offering its CoolGaN Generation 3 (G3) transistors in silicon MOSFET packages. The IGD015S10S1 100-V transistor will be housed in a 5×6-mm ...