Intel Corp. says it may have solved the problem of balancing the demand for power with excessive heat generation in future microprocessors, a key issue in the semiconductor industry's struggle to ...

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.

Microprocessors are the engines performing the logic functions that make computers, cell phones and countless other indispensable electronic gadgets run. Improvements in microprocessor speed and ...

Graphene transistor could mean computers that are 1,000 times faster Next-gen, carbon-based transistors would far outperform today's silicon ones Date: June 13, 2017 Source: University of Central ...

Graphene transistor could mean computers that are 1,000 times faster Next-gen, carbon-based transistors would far outperform today's silicon ones ...

Researchers at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, have created a pattern of carbon nanotubes on the surface of a silicon wafer. The nanotubes used to manufacture the processors ...

According to the researchers, chips built using this new silicon-free transistor could run up to 40 percent faster than top-tier silicon chips made by companies like Intel.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004, which kickstarted the digital revolution. Microprocessors are the “brains” inside computers ...