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?

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 ...

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.… ...

Intel is calling its Tri-Gate 3D Transistor the most significant development since the transistor was invented over 50 years ago. But regardless of whether the claim will hold true, the CPU design ...

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 ...

Even at the world’s most modern chip fabrication facilities, there’s no way to produce a processor the size of the WSE without at least some of its 1.2 trillion transistors coming out wrong.

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 ...