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ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Neil Hacker | get ASML EUV Lithography Machine → | tags: asml, semiconductors, transistors

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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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LG Display starts mass-producing LTPO-like 1 Hz LCD displays for laptops (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-23 | get LG Display 1Hz LCD Monitor → | tags: lg display, ltpo, oxide 1hz

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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

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

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

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Electron microscopy shows 'mouse bite' defects in semiconductors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | by David Nutt | get SEM Inspection Kit → | tags: semiconductor defects, tsmc, electron microscopy

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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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It's hard to build an oscillator (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-21 | get Oscillator → | tags: approx, capacitor, circuit

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It's Hard to Build an Oscillator (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-21 | get Oscillator → | tags: approx, capacitor, circuit

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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

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Lightning Detector Circuits (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: just, lightning, power

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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