A new breakthrough in China could power the future of silicon-free chips, further revolutionizing how we make microprocessors.

As reported this month in the scholarly journal Nature Communications, Friedman, Gelfand and their fellow researchers have theorized a next-generation transistor that's based not on silicon but on ...

Not an easy task for chipmakers, given that the recipe for faster microprocessors thus far has been to pack more transistors ... The next generation of computers is still possible, and we can ...

Currently, most computer and server microprocessors are made using what is known as a 65-nanometer process. The next generation of transistors will be made smaller using a 45-nanometer process.

Intel Producing First Processor Prototypes With New, Tiny 45 Nanometer Transistors ... of its next-generation 45nm family of products — codenamed “Penryn.” The early versions, which will be targeted ...

In 1965, Moore noted that over the history of computing the number of transistors ... of microprocessors, measured as “clock speed,” has largely remained the stagnant in recent years. This stagnation, ...

1976: The x86 architecture suffers a setback when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduce the Apple II computer ... processor with 134,000 transistors. 1984: IBM develops its second-generation ...

Microprocessors are the “brains” inside computers ... today’s second-generation Intel Core processors are more than 350,000 times the performance and each transistor uses about 5,000 ...