On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

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Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was the TC from the University of Manchester. After all, Dr. Wilkes and company were ...

There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the ...

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 ...

A group of researchers from the University of Arizona, The Jet Propulsion Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology and Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich have created the first ...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this ...