A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old transistor and how it’s commonly used, and if any uncommon uses might exist.

MIT researchers developed a more powerful magnetic transistor that could be used to design simpler circuits and create faster and more energy-efficient electronics.

Enhancing power density inevitably means dealing with heat. Fortunately, advances in material sciences, especially thermal interface materials (TIMs), continue to yield ...

MIT researchers with colleagues from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague have used 2D CrSBr, a van der Waals antiferromagnetic semiconductor, to create a transistor that could enable ...

A holistic approach that treats the stack as a coupled physical system helps overcome thermal, stress, and reliability challenges.

Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) are advanced and specialized computing systems that could tackle computationally hard problems, such as optimization or integer factorization tasks, more ...

The MAX74810, which is fully specified over the extended industrial temperature range of −40 to +125°C, is housed in an 8-lead MSOP package. The 23-page datasheet includes the many graphs and tables ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In December 2011, Jensen Huang arrived onstage at a developer’s conference in Beijing armed with an ...

For a century, Bell Labs has been responsible for one technological breakthrough after another. Now part of Nokia, Bell Labs is setting its sights on the quantum future, pushing the boundaries on ...

A London-based startup has created the world's first full-stack quantum computer using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process ...