NextBigFuture

Development of Novel Transistor with Combined Logic and Memory Functions with Power Consumption Reduced to One-Millionth that of Conventional Devices

The University of Tokyo, succeeded in the development of a novel transistor, the “atom transistor,” which performs both logic and memory functions while reducing power consumption by one million times ...
Hackaday

Processor Built With Transistor-Transistor Logic

[Donn] wanted know exactly what is going on inside of a processor so naturally he built a CPU out of TTL components. He had previously built a couple of versions of a computer based on the Z80 ...
NextBigFuture

Monolithic 3D Integration of Carbon Nanotube Logic Transistors could provide a thousand fold power reduction for computer processors

The crystal ball is murky beyond the 7-nm node. Transistors made with carbon nanotubes as the channel material hold special promise because of the ultra-thin body of the carbon nanotube of about one ...
Electronic Design

For Designers: Logic Nets in Transistor Cans (ED article from 1961)

March 29, 1961 - LOGICAL microcircuits in transistor cans are now being offered by four major companies. Heavy research and production is being pressed by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., Raytheon Co., ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying a Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor To A Logic-in-Memory Application Circuit Design

A technical paper titled “Analysis of Logic-in-Memory Full Adder Circuit With Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor (FGFET)” was published by researchers at Konkuk University, Korea National ...
Hackaday

Discrete Transistor Computer Is Not Discreet

Every few years, we hear about someone building a computer from first principles. This doesn’t mean getting a 6502 or Z80, wiring it up, and running BASIC. I’m talking about builds from the ground up, ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Radical new computer could ditch electricity for light and supercharge processing

Computing is hitting a physical and economic wall just as generative artificial intelligence explodes in complexity and cost.
ExtremeTech

Supercharging the nervous system with biological, ion-transistor computer chips

A bioelectronic engineer, Klas Tybrandt of Linkoping University in Sweden, has built the first "ion transistor" computer chip, which uses chemical ions and biological molecules as charge carriers ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

Researchers Spin All-Carbon Computer Design

Engineers at Northwestern Engineering and the University of Texas at Dallas have designed a novel computing system made solely from carbon. The system could potentially replace the silicon transistors ...
New Atlas

Quantum computing breakthrough: Qubits made from standard silicon transistors

In what is likely a major breakthrough for quantum computing, researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia have managed for the first time to build the fundamental blocks of ...
SFGate

10 million transistors no bigger than a pinhead / Molecule-size devices rival silicon chips

Computer scientists revealed a new way of making exceptionally small transistors yesterday in what some described as a key step toward a post- silicon future of electronics on the molecular scale. A ...