In electrical circuits, transistors switch or amplify electric signals, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Under fluorescent light, the device looks less like a computer than a tiny constellation of dots. The specks are actually ...

Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was the TC from the University of Manchester. After all, Dr. Wilkes and company were at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley had submitted the patent application for a "three-electrode circuit element ...

A bioelectronic engineer, Klas Tybrandt of Linkoping University in Sweden, has built the first "ion transistor" computer chip, which uses chemical ions and biological molecules as charge carriers ...

Modern computer chips contain billions of transistors etched onto a fingernail-sized piece of silicon. In fact, a typical smartphone processor now contains on the order of 15 billion transistors—a ...

However you make a digital computer, you need something to represent a binary digit. Usually this is some form of switch: a ...

On Dec. 16, 1947, the future began with the invention of the transistor. A lab notebook indicates that researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories first got the thing to work on this day 75 years ago.

An international team of scientists have created a tiny transistor that could one day help quantum computers process impossibly large amounts of information. The researchers are the first to make a ...