We tend to take for granted that our PCs will turn on and the silicon inside them will dutifully crunch through whatever tasks we ask, be it video encoding, playing games, or even just watching a ...
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A transistor – a word blend of "transfer" and "resistor" – is a fundamental component of today's advanced electronics. Essentially, a transistor, as one of the foundational elements of modern ...
IBM, a powerhouse in the realm of semiconductor research, calls it the Vertical-Transport Field-Effect Transistor (VTFET). The most advanced chips on the market resemble sprawling suburbs, with ...
From smartphones to supercomputers, electronics have a heat problem. Modern computer chips suffer from microscopic “hotspots” with power density levels that exceed those of rocket nozzles and even ...