A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has ...

Over on YouTube our hacker [VIP Love Secretary] shows us how to make a simple MOSFET tester. This is a really neat, useful, elegant, and simple hack, but the video is kind of terrible. We found ...

Phononic circuits are emerging devices that can manipulate sound waves (i.e., phonons) in ways that resemble how electronic ...

MIT researchers with colleagues from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague have used 2D CrSBr, a van der Waals ...

This DI describes how some simple circuitry can simulate bouncy contacts, and do so controllably and repeatably, thus ...

Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) are advanced and specialized computing systems that could tackle computationally hard ...

Minicomputers were mid-range, general-purpose computers in the age of mainframes, the latter taking up large rooms and ...

Cadence developed a digital twin of NVIDIA’s SuperPod in a bid to boost the power efficiency and cooling effectiveness of AI ...

By the time Washington realized America’s chip supply rested on an island just 100 miles from China, it was too late. The geopolitical alarm bell rang. The response was massive: $6.6 billion in CHIPS ...

At Eindhoven University of Technology, researchers are working on the next generation of computer chips that enable the future digital revolution ...

Over the past year, we’ve tested products like the Ninja Artisan pizza oven, the Dyson Airstrait, and the Dyson Supersonic, ...