Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State.

Silicon is the kingpin when it comes to semiconductor technology that’s used in smartphones, computers, electric vehicles, and more. However, the material could soon lose its claim as the most ...

Marking a major milestone for silicon-based quantum technology, the system has been installed at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre The system integrates the company’s Quantum Processing Unit ...

Over in the UK, quantum computing company Quantum Motion has debuted an industry-first quantum computer, manufactured entirely with a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process. This fabrication ...

This conceptual illustration of a computer based on 2D molecules displays an actual scanning electron microscope image of the computer fabricated by a team by researchers at Penn State. The keyboard ...

Samsung announced that it has expanded its portfolio of CMOS image sensors to include a new high-definition 1/4-inch, 1.2 Megapixel (Mp) system-on-chip (SoC) imager, the S5K4AW, for notebook and ...

The 4508 Group is a 4-bit single-chip microcomputer designed with CMOS technology. Its CPU is that of the 4500 series using a simple, high-speed instruction set. The computer is equipped with two ...

Researchers from MIT, Georgia Tech, and Air Force Research Laboratory propose a bonding process to integrate gallium nitride (GaN) transistors onto standard silicon CMOS chips. They used the process ...

Subir Ghosh, left, and Saptarshi Das, right, led a team in developing a silicon-free, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor computer capable of simple operations. Displayed between them is an ...

Quantum Motion has delivered the industry's first full-stack quantum computer to be built using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process -- the same transistor technology used in conventional ...