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A newly developed optical transistor could be the key to higher-performance CPUs and a leap forward toward a practical quantum computer.

New Transistor Could Keep Computer Evolution On Track Date: December 13, 2000 Source: Purdue University Summary: Purdue University engineers have new information contradicting the most dire ...

Bioengineers have taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. Scientists have used a biological transistor made from genetic material -- DNA and RNA -- in ...

With the current silicon-based transistors heading for the atomic end of the line, new techniques and technologies will be needed to underpin tomorrow's computing hardware.

Back in 1965 Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the density of transistors on silicon chips would double about every two years. As a result, so would computing power.

A single-atom transistor developed by Australian and Finnish scientists could prove extremely useful in the search of a better quantum bit for the next generation of personal computers.

Scientists say they have created the first transistor from a single phosphorous atom using near-atomic precision, which could keep development of processors on track with Moore’s law until at ...

A team of Swedish researchers reached a groundbreaking development -- they made a fully functional wooden transistor.

A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. In a paper to be published March 28 in Science, the team details a ...

December 9, 2019 Reorganizing a computer chip: Transistors can now both process and store information Researchers solve decades-old challenge of building a functional transistor integrated with ...

Scientists create a single-electron transistor: A big step for quantum computing? University of Pittsburgh researchers built a single-electron transistor made of oxide-based materials.