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 joint collaboration between Yale and IBM is investigating how novel computer memory devices may offer optimal information storage. The team, which published its findings in the journal Advanced ...

The Nobel-prize-winning wonder material graphene has been broadly touted as a more-than-promising replacement for silicon in VLSI CMOS chips. Interest levels are so high that there are whole ...

Recently in material science news from China we hear that [Hailin Peng] and his team at Peking University just made the world’s fastest transistor and it’s not made of silicon. Before we tell you ...

South Korean manufacturer Samsung Electronics announced this week that it has begun mass production of a new kind of memory chip that stores information by melting and freezing tiny crystals. Known as ...

Interest in neuromorphic computing has spurred research into new types of memory devices that can replicate the function of biological neurons and synapse. A recent paper reviewing the current state ...

The materials used in rewritable CDs and DVDs also show promise as electronic memories systems. They believe they could make 1 million read/write material (50-100 times longer than current flash) and ...

Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). The ITRS—which has been produced ...

Engineers puzzling over which materials should form the basis of the next generation of flash memory chips appear to have had the answer close to hand. It has been lurking in their computer’s CD ...