Adding big blocks of SRAM to collections of AI tensor engines, or better still, a waferscale collection of such engines, ...

Chip startup Vertical Semiconductor has raised $11 million in a seed funding round to support the development of its vertical GaN (gallium nitride) transistors. The round was led by Playground Global, ...

Modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years, and in all the time we've been here, we've made a lot of things. In the early days, homo sapiens fashioned tools from flint and other materials, ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing. When you purchase through ...

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has been going all-in to reinvent itself as a global foundry powerhouse, just as the race for next-generation 2-nanometer (nm) chips is heating up with its 18A process at the ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today introduced a new line of artificial intelligence chips that it says can outperform Nvidia Corp.’s Blackwell B200 at some tasks. The Instinct MI350 series, as the ...

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 ...

Amidst the advances in CMOS and wide bandgap semiconductor technology, you can easily forget that the first transistor invented by William Shockley in 1949 was a bipolar junction transistor (BJT).

Inside a sterile, cavernous building in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, the latest monster dreamed up by asml, a maker of chipmaking gear, is quietly humming away. Weighing 150 tonnes and the size of a ...

The race for ever-larger generative artificial intelligence models continues to fuel the chip industry. On Wednesday, Cerebras Systems, one of Nvidia's most prominent competitors, unveiled the "Wafer ...

Downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists recently discovered ...