NextBigFuture

Nanowire Gate All Around Transistors

Gate-All-Around Transistors: In a new design, the transistor channel is made up of an array of vertical nanowires. The gate surrounds all the nanowires, which improves its ability to control the flow ...
Ars Technica

Motorola produces new vertical gate transistor

Motorola today announced a transistor technology aimed at propping up Moore's Law for a while longer, announcing the creation of a transistor gate structure that allows for the equivalent of two ...
EDN

AMD fabricates double-gate transistor for 10-nm designs

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Hoping to beat IBM, Intel, TSMC and others to the punch, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here today announced it has fabricated the world's smallest double-gate transistors–based on a ...
EDN

AMD Fabricates 10nm Double-Gate Transistor

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced it has fabricated double-gate transistors based on Fin Field Effect technology that measure just 10nm. The transistors are six times smaller than the ...
NextBigFuture

Nanowire Transistors two times smaller

A*Star Research – A new design reduces the areal footprint of nanowire transistors by a factor of two. Researchers have now integrated two transistors onto a single vertical silicon nanowire, pushing ...
Physics World

Nanowires give vertical transistors a boost

Researchers in Japan have made an important advance in developing a new type of silicon-based transistor by successfully creating vertical transistors from semiconducting nanowires on a silicon ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Oxides Bring Low Leakage Transistors To Leading-Edge Memories

Amorphous oxide semiconductors like IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) offer acceptable carrier mobility with very low leakage. Amorphous oxides are especially attractive for stacked devices because ...
CNET

Intel unfurls experimental 3D transistors

The chipmaker plans to unveil more details behind its Tri-Gate transistor, an experimental circuit that could be important in the company's quest to keep up with Moore's Law. Michael Kanellos is ...
Electronic Design

IBM Unveils Vertical Transistors to Try to Keep Moore's Law Alive

The most advanced chips on the market resemble sprawling suburbs, with transistors arranged like blocks of houses on a slab of silicon. IBM is trying to level all the houses and replace them with ...
The Economist

A tall story

MOORE'S meta-law, as coined by The Economist, states that every improvement in the technology of chip-making is followed by a spate of press articles—most of which begin by describing Moore's ...
ZDNet

Intel experiments with 3D transistors

Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up. At a presentation in Japan this week, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based ...
New Atlas

Intel's 3-D transistors to keep pace with Moore's Law

NASA, the double-helix model, Elvis ... there's a long list of things that emerged during the 1950s which still resonate strongly in 2011, but none more so than the humble silicon transistor.