On the other hand, this computer goes all the way back to first principles and implements a complete processor out of individual transistors instead. The transistor computer uses over 2000 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore's Law, a general rule that is central to the ...

This was the headline, 65 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 7, 1960. The story opens: An all-transistor general purpose computer, the GE-225, has been developed by ...

If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in ... engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was ...

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school ... which uses only two digits: 0 and 1. In a computer microchip, transistors act as switches, letting current through ...

In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various ...

But before even those transistor-based computers is a retrocomputing era rarely touched on: the era of programmable vacuum tube machines. [Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer which ...

Research path ‘born out of necessity’ leads Peking University scientists to develop faster, more efficient transistor.

NUS researchers have demonstrated a single, standard silicon transistor can function like a biological neuron and synapse ...

“This breakthrough represents a major step toward the next generation of transistor technologies that can sustain the rapid progress of computing and artificial intelligence applications,” said ...