transistor

A nanometer, or 1 billionth of a meter, refers to the size of a transistor, and the smaller the size, the greater the number of transistors that can be placed on a chip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Others that did reliably advance—notably, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.—made less-enormous leaps in transistor density from generation to generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

By the 50s it was making tape recorders and transistor radios.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The findings also point to a broader change in the way semiconductor researchers think about transistor design.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

“You can use some of the room in my case. Also use your book bag. Take your transistor radio.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

A nanometer, or 1 billionth of a meter, refers to the size of a transistor, and the smaller the size, the greater the number of transistors that can be placed on a chip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Making better chips for AI is increasingly about how they are laid out and stitched together—not just cramming together as many transistors as possible on a single piece of silicon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Their computations, which are in effect the switching on and off of microscopic silicon transistors that make up a chip, are actually silent.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

They engineered two versions of bacterial transistors that respond to a molecule called OC 6.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

They glued transistors to their ears all summer, even during Jorge del Pino’s brief hospital stays, and cheered when the Mets caught fire and the Cubs finally folded.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García