Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing ...

AI chip company Cerebras has unveiled the CS-4, a rack-scale solution comprising three of the company’s newly launched Wafer Scale Engine 3 Turbo (WSE-3T). The first member of Cerebras’ Nexus ...

UMC and Tower Semiconductor dropped 7% and 10% on no company-specific news as AI capex fears triggered a broad foundry sector selloff. SOXX fell 6% while QQQ dropped just 2%, confirming the AI ...

Atomically thin semiconductors could enable dramatically smaller and more efficient chips, but a stubborn problem at the boundary between materials has limited their performance. Researchers have now ...

In July 2026, social media posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump confused the words "transistor" and "transgender" during a speech criticizing the CHIPS and Science Act, a 2022 bipartisan effort ...

Tower Semiconductor is placing a roughly US$3 billion wager that the artificial-intelligence buildout will force data centers to move data with light rather than electricity, anchoring the bet in ...

IBM on Thursday unveiled the first chip created using its latest semiconductor technologies, one that holds nearly 100 billion transistors in a fleck of hardware no bigger than your fingernail.

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The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up. IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the ...

Beneath the rapid expansion of electric vehicles and artificial intelligence infrastructure, a quieter battle is unfolding in the semiconductor supply chain. Some subscribers prefer to save their ...

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors ...

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