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A modern chip switches billions of transistors a second with no moving parts

Semiconductor transistors now switch states in single-digit picoseconds, enabling processors to flip billions of logic gates ...
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Taking power analysis to the transistor level for a full chip

Almost every chip being taped out today is mixed-signal in nature. In addition to increased integration of analog and RF blocks, designers are using complex power-management techniques to minimize ...
TMCnet

HUAWEI Presents the Tau Scaling Law, Enabling Breakthroughs in Transistor Density and System Performance

On Monday, at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in Shanghai, He Tingbo, President of HUAWEI's Semiconductor Business Department, presented the Tau (t) Scaling Law, ...
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Monolayer WSe₂ unlocks high-performance p-type transistors that could change how future chips balance speed and power

Transistors, small devices that can amplify or switch electrical signals, are central components of all modern computer chips ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Setting Vmin With Transistor-Level PDN Telemetry

Curious about how to precisely determine the optimal voltage-regulator setpoints for your System-on-Chip (SoC)? In this video, we dive into how transistor-level Power Delivery Network (PDN) telemetry ...
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A chip the size of rice can pack tens of billions of transistors

Engineers at MIT have produced the smallest three-dimensional transistor ever reported, a device so compact that a chip ...
EDN

Synopsys Rolls Out Transistor-Level Static Timing Analysis

To address emerging custom circuit design challenges, Mountain View, Calif.-based EDA giant Synopsys Inc. today unveiled its anticipated next-generation transistor-level static timing analysis tool, ...
Nanowerk

Vacuum channel transistor suppresses gate leakage to enter chip circuits

A vacuum channel transistor controls electrons at the cathode to suppress gate leakage, letting it work inside amplifiers and ...
Electronic Design

GaN Transistors – Drive Control, Thermal Management, and Isolation

This year, several companies are expected to bring 600/650 V Gallium Nitride (GaN) power transistors to market. Almost all will be normally-on (depletion mode) transistors connected in a cascode ...
Nanowerk

Single-Electron Transistors: The Ultimate in Miniaturization and Precision

What is a Single-Electron Transistor? A single-electron transistor (SET) is a nanoscale electronic device that allows the precise control of individual electrons. Unlike conventional transistors that ...
DATAQUEST

Huawei presents Tau (τ) scaling law, enabling breakthroughs in transistor density and system performance

Innovative technologies such as LogicFolding, can be used to continuously compress signal propagation delay and steadily ...