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How small can a transistor actually get?

Every computer chip is built from a switch smaller than anything the human eye can resolve, and for decades engineers have ...
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 ...

QOTD: "The number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months"

The law held up for many years, with engineers finally reaching the physical limitations of silicon in the last decade or so ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
VentureBeat

Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2 trillion transistor chip for AI

New artificial intelligence company Cerebras Systems is unveiling the largest semiconductor chip ever built. The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine has 1.2 trillion transistors, the basic on-off electronic ...
Network World

IBM unveils sub-1 nanometer chip with nearly 100 billion transistors

It's the world’s first sub-1 nm chip technology, IBM claims. The fingernail-size chip is built with IBM's new transistor architecture, called nanostack, which vertically stacks and staggers ...
Nanowerk

Dual-gate vertical transistor enables stable nanoscale 3D chip stacking

Researchers developed a dual-modulated vertical transistor that suppresses leakage at nanoscale channels and supports scalable 3D semiconductor integration. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Daegu ...