If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too. The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations ...

A transistor is a tiny device that either ... built in 1946 and considered the first of the modern generation of electronic computers, used about 18,000 vacuum tubes. The machine needed a lot ...

A new breakthrough in China could power the future of silicon-free chips, further revolutionizing how we make microprocessors ...

Intel's 18A process is coming later this year. It's the company's biggest chance to catch back up with rival TSMC. But it's a ...

Computing will make up the bulk of quantum’s expected economic value by 2040 ( an estimated $45bn to $131bn market size ). But the other areas — networking, security, sensing — are also poised to have ...

We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow ...

and some past experience of building computers on perfboard from discrete transistors, so this next project, Q2, is a complete implementation of a PDP8-like microcomputer on a single PCB.