For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is running into hard physical limits. A new approach from MIT aims to sidestep ...

Nothing is worse for a design team than a chip that fails to work in the bringup lab. Electrical problems are historically a major cause of such failures. Power leaks, power-ground DC paths, missing ...

With smaller process nodes becoming increasingly more expensive to achieve, chip manufacturing engineers are turning to other ways to increase the number of transistors that can be packed into a ...

Apple’s next-generation flagship, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, expected in 2026, will feature the new A20 Pro chip built on TSMC’s ...

On Wednesday, a team of researchers from China used a paper published in Nature to describe a 32-bit RISC-V processor built using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as the semiconductor. For ...

As chip manufacturers edge ever closer to the limits of what can be achieved with silicon, researchers have been exploring ways of boosting performance and power efficiency by stacking other ...

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw ...