While the very first version used germanium, the industry quickly pivoted to silicon because it handled heat far better. By ...

The costs of designing and producing an analog ASIC chip can be grouped into three main parts: human capital, software tools, and prototype fabrication. While all three are equally critical to success ...

The share prices of semiconductor firms on Hong Kong’s stock market has risen by 140% over the past year, beating a comparable American index. Alibaba and Baidu, two Chinese internet giants, intend to ...

As traditional chip miniaturization slows, researchers have found a way to pack more computing power into the same space by stacking silicon circuits in multiple layers. The new process uses ...

Just as Huawei introduced its ambitious “Tau (τ) Law” semiconductor strategy at ISCAS 2026 today, the company also shared more details about its upcoming Kirin mobile processor. In our previous report ...

The latest "Google Doodle" to adorn the Google search engine home page is celebrating achievements in quantum physics - and aiming to spread interest in the field. Google's Doodle webpage explains ...

Macworld explains how Apple uses “binned” chips—processors with disabled cores due to manufacturing defects—to create more affordable products like the iPhone 17e and entry-level MacBook Air. This ...

Duke engineers show how a common device architecture used to test 2D transistors overstates up to sixfold their performance prospects in real-world devices. For nearly two decades, two‑dimensional (2D ...

The story so far: In 1999, California-based Nvidia Corp. marketed a chip called GeForce 256 as “the world’s first GPU”. Its purpose was to make videogames run better and look better. In the 2.5 ...

OpenAI Group PBC today released a lightweight version of its popular agentic coding tool GPT-5.3-Codex, which is designed for more rapid inference, the process by which artificial intelligence models ...

ransistors control the flow of electricity, acting as tiny switches and amplifiers inside nearly every electronic device. This video breaks down how they work and why they’re considered one of the ...

Transistors made modern electronics possible, from smartphones to space technology. This video explains how they control signals, act as switches and amplifiers, and why they’re in almost every device ...