November 10, 2003Motorola develops a dual-gate transistor in which the two gates can switch on and off independently--a twist the company says could increase performance and reduce power consumption.TAGS:transistor, Motorola Inc., gate, power consumption
December 14, 2007The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947.Photos: Sixty years of transistors TAGS:transistor, AT&T Bell Laboratories, signal, manufacturing, Intel, 3D
March 14, 2005In journal, computing giant publishes ideas for creating chips with crossbars out of specially designed molecules.TAGS:transistor, HP, computing giant, nanotechnology
January 26, 2004The company signs a deal to supply NEC with RF transistors for its 3G wireless network, its second such contract in the past two weeks and a sign of its challenge to Motorola.TAGS:Agere Systems Inc., transistor, NEC Electronics Corp., 3G, Motorola Inc.
December 8, 2006MIT, among others, is working with new composite materials it hopes will be able to reliably outpace the conducting speed of silicon.TAGS:transistor, silicon, material, professor, Apple iPod, Intel
December 17, 2007After a bout of good fortune, AMD finds itself coming to grips with a resurgent Intel. Plus: Can software keep up with multicore technology?TAGS:AMD, multi-core, transistor, Intel, chip company
December 13, 2004Chip performance is being improved by pulling silicon atoms apart, and in some cases pushing them closer together.TAGS:transistor, silicon, AMD, DSL, IBM Corp., Intel, technique
December 12, 2006Company will present a paper this week outlining a new type of memory that could help boost processor performance.TAGS:transistor, cell, cache memory, gate, SRAM, Intel, memory