A transistor is a tiny device that either ... built in 1946 and considered the first of the modern generation of electronic computers, used about 18,000 vacuum tubes. The machine needed a lot ...

That's mammoth by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit on a single computer chip. It was nevertheless an amazing piece of technology. It was built by Walter Brattain. Before ...

and some past experience of building computers on perfboard from discrete transistors, so this next project, Q2, is a complete implementation of a PDP8-like microcomputer on a single PCB.

A new type of transistor can dissipate almost zero heat — slashing energy usage in future quantum computers by up to 1,000 times and paving the way for massively scaled-up machines. The ...

We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow ...

Semiconductor devices called transistors are the tiny electronic switches that run computations inside our computers ... t have imagined in previous generations,” says John Neuffer, chief ...

In June, Apple said it would transition its Mac computers ... and its next-generation will be 7nm chips. These numbers used to be a measure of the tiny spaces in between transistors on a chip ...