Modern computer chips contain billions of transistors etched onto a fingernail-sized piece of silicon. In fact, a typical smartphone processor now contains on the order of 15 billion transistors ...

Without transistors the modern world would simply not exist. But how do they work, and how do modern, atomic sized versions compare with the originals?

Today's transistors can switch millions or even billions of times per second, enabling the astonishing speeds of modern processors. Why Silicon?

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors.… ...

When we were in school, every description of how transistors work was pretty dry and had a lot of math involved. We suppose you might have had a great instructor who was able to explain things more… ...

Three-Dimensional (3D) Transistors: Stacking transistors vertically in a 3D configuration to increase transistor density on a chip without reducing individual transistor size.

Going even deeper, we explored how these structures are built and how billions of transistors work together inside a processor. We also examined how processors are physically manufactured from raw ...

Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies, earlier this year described the lessons the company ...

Leading chip company Intel Corp. has started sampling an Itanium-2 64-bit microprocessor that is made by linking together 1.72 billion transistors. The processor, codenamed Montecito, has been ...

Crawford did not disclose specific plans for such a processor, though he said Intel will be able to design and build a 1-billion-transistor microprocessor using 65-nanometer process technology by 2007 ...