transistor

IBM Research unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, featuring a 0.7 nanometer node transistor architecture.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The Shenzhen, China-based company expects to design high-end chips by 2031 that match the transistor density of those manufactured with a 1.4-nanometer process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

The MTS traces its roots back a century to Bell Labs, the iconic research organization that developed technologies such as the transistor, the laser and various programming languages.

From MarketWatch ● May 9, 2026

L.A. literature: In a durably famous metaphor for Southern California, “The Crying of Lot 49’s” heroine, Oedipa, compares the sight of a distant sprawling suburb to a transistor radio’s printed circuit board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Full of gray-washed underwear and a cheap transistor radio.

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

The cutting-edge 3-nanometer process can fit 250 million to 300 million transistors in one square millimeter of silicon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

By squeezing more transistors into tighter spaces, these advanced nodes boost processing speeds while cutting down on power consumption.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

But with billions of transistors now on some chips, it is growing more difficult to sustain and experts broadly agree this pace of growth cannot continue indefinitely.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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