Nanowerk

Novel dual-gate transistor design enables stable 3D semiconductor stacking

Researchers developed a dual-modulated vertically stacked transistor that eliminates current leakage at nanoscale channel ...
EDN

Solido design attacks variations in transistor-level analog design

There is a gap between the variation data that foundries provide to their customers and the ability of analog designers to actually use the data, according to Solido Design Automation president and ...
EDN

Not All Design Limits Should Be Equal Especially For MOS Transistor Design

If you have designed blocks in submicron technologies you realize that supply voltages make circuit designs difficult. In the newer technologies, the supply voltage continues to shrink. So how does an ...
Nanowerk

Dual-gate graphene transistor enables 20x more sensitive biosensing in liquids

Dual-gate graphene transistor enables 20x more sensitive biosensing in liquids The new framework can power sensors that ...
TechSpot

MIT's 3D nanoscale transistors use quantum tunneling design to bypass physical limits

Why it matters: Silicon transistors are great, but just like any other object in the physical world, they are held back by a few limitations. The laws of physics put a bottleneck on performance and ...
Seeking Alpha

Synopsys and TSMC Pave the Path for Trillion-Transistor AI and Multi-Die Chip Design

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its continued, close collaboration with TSMC to deliver advanced EDA and IP solutions on TSMC's most ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Transistor-Jammed Chips Rely On Process Progress

More and more transistors per chip. There's simply no way around it as long as there's a need to create faster and smaller systems that consume less power. This will provide more gates for ASICs and ...
Ars Technica

A transistor made using two atomically thin materials sets size record

The ever-shrinking features of transistors etched in silicon have always required pushing the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. The discovery of atomically thin materials like graphene and ...
CNET

AMD revs up transistor designs

Advanced Micro Devices has brewed two new advanced transistor designs that it says will lead to higher chip performance. The chipmaker's researchers have created and demonstrated a new Fully Depleted ...
The Verge

IBM and Samsung say their new chip design could lead to week-long battery life on phones

IBM and Samsung have announced their latest advance in semiconductor design: a new way to stack transistors vertically on a chip (instead of lying flat on the surface of the semiconductor). The new ...
Electronic Design

Plotting Out a Path to the Trillion Transistor Era

Check out our coverage of the Hot Chips 2022 event. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that it will take more than smaller, cheaper transistors to propel Moore’s Law in the coming years. The Santa Clara, ...