The new, more stable transistor could be the answer to a looming problem that faces computer chip makers: how to continue to improve technology at a rate that matches Moore's Law.

The global semiconductor industry has always been cyclical in nature, but the COVID-19 pandemic turned an expected down-cycle into a drawn-out shortage that has impacted industries ranging from ...

In a major step forward for future electronics, scientists in China have created a new type of high-performance semiconductor ...

University of Missouri researchers have devised a more efficient and precise method for manufacturing computer chips.

The majority of computer chips are made of transistors, which unlike capacitors can't store energy; they merely act like "on/off" switches, either letting an electric current through or stopping it.

Computer chips, containing hundreds and often thousands of individual electrical circuits, are manufactured on thin wafers of silicon. Silicon is the world's best-known semiconductor.

Taiwan has the world’s biggest semiconductor industry, with one single company — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company — producing 53 per cent of the world’s chips.

Chou calls the mechanical technique laser-assisted direct imprint or LADI. He says it could allow electronics manufacturers to increase the density of transistors on computer chips by 100-fold.

Worries about an industry downturn have slammed chip stocks, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor index tumbling 35% so far in 2022, far more than the S&P 500’s 19% loss.

Machines that make computer chips use software developed at the PEER Group, but there is room for other Canadian firms in silicon chip supply chains, Doug Suerich says.

VELDHOVEN — ASML, a semiconductor industry and stock market giant, has to think smaller. Or maybe bigger. It is building machines the size of double-decker buses, weighing over 200 tonnes, in its ...