transistor

Big Blue’s research division announced Thursday that it had produced the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, featuring a transistor architecture at the 0.7 nanometer node.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The sodium clusters used in the experiment measured roughly 8 nanometers across, similar in scale to modern transistor components.

From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026

The MTS traces its roots back a century to Bell Labs, the iconic research organization that developed technologies such as the transistor, the laser and various programming languages.

From MarketWatch ● May 9, 2026

L.A. literature: In a durably famous metaphor for Southern California, “The Crying of Lot 49’s” heroine, Oedipa, compares the sight of a distant sprawling suburb to a transistor radio’s printed circuit board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Rasheed’s watch too was sold, his old transistor radio, his pair of neckties, his shoes, and his wedding ring.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Instead of trying to make transistors smaller, the company laid out a method for stacking circuits to cram more computing power into a single chip footprint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

By squeezing more transistors into tighter spaces, these advanced nodes boost processing speeds while cutting down on power consumption.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

IBM has unveiled a new chip design which it says could enable manufacturers to cram 100 billion transistors on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Chip makers typically start making new generations of chips with ever-tinier transistors by testing them in labs, then transferring production to factories where they can be made in much larger quantities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

They glued transistors to their ears all summer, even during Jorge del Pino’s brief hospital stays, and cheered when the Mets caught fire and the Cubs finally folded.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García