When adding up the potential but vacant transistor locations in ROM and PLA (programmable logic array) sections, the final count came to 29,277 potential transistors. This is much closer to the no ...

Within a microprocessor, electrical current in a transistor flows from a power source through a gate to a power drain. Most microprocessors today measure 90 nanometers as the shortest distance bet ...

Intel has announced the world's first 3-D microprocessor transistor for mass production. It's a major breakthrough for the semiconductor industry, which has been trying for years to get the ...

It is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004 microprocessor, a computer carved onto silicon, an element as plentiful on earth as sand on a beach. Microprocessors unchained computers ...

potentially revolutionizing microprocessor efficiency and performance. Researchers from Peking University have claimed to have created a silicon-free transistor that is pegged to improve processor ...

Although usually hundreds of microprocessors are built on a single wafer, we'll focus on a small piece of a microprocessor — a individual transistor. A transistor acts as a switch, controlling ...