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 ...

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.

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 ...