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, ...

Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional ...

For half a century, computing advanced in a reassuring, predictable way. Transistors—devices used to switch electrical ...

Gates-backed silicon photonics startup unveils optical transistors 10,000× smaller and chips with 1,000× squared matrix compute potential.

At Peking University, a group of Chinese scientists may have just turned the computing industry up on its head. With a slender sheet of lab-grown bismuth and an architecture unlike anything inside ...

Year after year, semiconductor manufacturers scale down the size of components, making processors faster and more efficient. However, we're approaching the limits of atomic scale with silicon, leading ...