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The World's Most Complex Machine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Neil Hacker | get Raspberry Pi 400 Kit → | tags: asml, semiconductors, transistors

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How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get Electronics Starter Kit → | tags: motorola, 2n2222, 2n3904

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Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get Motorola NPN Transistor Kit → | tags: motorola, transistors, npn

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Why, After All These Years, MZI-Based Transistorlessness Might Finally Be Here (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get MZI-Based Photonic Switch → | tags: mzi interferometers, photonic computing, silicon photonics

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New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-13 | by Aaron Klotz | get Terahertz Radiation Detector → | tags: adelaide university, terahertz radiation, vector network analyzer

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Breakthrough computer chip tech could help meet ‘monumental demand’ driven by AI (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-02 | by Bourzac | get AI Accelerator Card → | tags: asml, euv lithography, silicon wafers

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Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe Kit → | tags: tic-tac-toe, discrete transistors, logisim

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Intel released its first Pentium chip on this day 33 years ago, came packing 3.1 million transistors — fifth-gen x86 chip built on an 800nm process (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-22 | by Mark Tyson | get Intel Pentium Processor → | tags: pentium, intel, x86

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'Silicon' is a new five-pound art book charting the semiconductor revolution with full-page die shots and commentary — 384 page tome is $99 to pre-order now (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-22 | by Mark Tyson | get Semiconductor Die Shot Book → | tags: silicon, arena, transistors

40.

Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-19 | get Kids' Electronics Learning Kit → | tags: leds, resistors, transistors

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IBM and Lam's new partnership paves the way toward sub-1nm logic using High-NA EUV — Albany lab to pioneer dry resist process integration (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-12 | by Luke James | get High-NA EUV Lithography Kit → | tags: ibm, lam research, high-na euv

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Cadence embeds AI 'super agent' to assist engineers when designing EDA tools — company aims for ‘over a trillion transistors’ by 2030, with AI helping to debug and verify complex projects (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-12 | by Luke James | get EDA → | tags: cadence, design, timing

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Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-01 | by Mark Tyson | get Fiber transistor → | tags: computer, fiber, flexible

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Bill Gates-backed silicon photonics startup develops optical transistors 10,000x smaller than current tech — optical chip can process 1,000 x 1,000 multiplication matrices (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-26 | by Jowi Morales | get Optical transistor → | tags: chip, nvidia, optical

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Intel details progress on fabbing 2D transistors a few atoms thick in standard high volume fab production environment — chipmaker outlines 300-mm fab compatible with integration of 2D transistor contacts and gate stacks (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Anton Shilov | get 2D Transistor → | tags: channels, gate, imec

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First truly 3D chip fabbed at US foundry, features carbon nanotube transistors and RAM on a single die — future devices could have up to 1000x improvement in energy-delay product (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Luke James | get Carbon Nanotube Transistor → | tags: fold, hardware, performance

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Samsung touts 96% lower-power NAND design — researchers investigate design based on ferroelectric transistors (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-01 | by Luke James | get Ferroelectric Transistors → | tags: charge, ferroelectric, nand

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Ferroelectric transistors for low-power NAND flash memory (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-26 | by Yoo | get Ferroelectric transistor → | tags: doi org, et al, https

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The microchip era may be ending – and wafer-scale systems could be what comes next (techspot.com)

2025-11-09 | get Microchip → | tags: billion, billion transistors, company nvidia

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Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Attilio Belmonte | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: bit, cell, dram

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Low-Temp 2D Semiconductors: A Chipmaking Shift (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Samuel K. Moore | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: 2d, cdimension, devices

52.

The Unsustainability of Moore's Law (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Charles Rosenbauer | get Google Pixel → | tags: chip, chips, gate

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MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon for faster next-gen wireless devices (techspot.com)

2025-10-31 | by Skye Jacobs | get smartphone → | tags: copper, gan, high

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MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon chips for faster next-gen devices (techspot.com)

2025-10-31 | by Skye Jacobs | get smartphone → | tags: copper, gan, high