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 extremely thin silicon films still allow effective control by the transistor gate, while the high doping levels help reduce parasitic contact resistance.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 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

Somehow, by not mentioning his name, she knew that she had drawn him into the tousled intimacy of that blue cross-stitch afternoon and the song from the tangerine transistor.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

It was designed to stop electricity from leaking as transistors shrink to microscopic levels, ultimately allowing chips to become smaller, faster, and more efficient.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

For decades, the number of transistors that can be put onto a chip has doubled every two years: this is a phenomenon known as Moore's Law.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

As he sees it, this philosophy is what drives IBM’s ongoing work in transistors.

From Barron's ● 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