New technique lets researchers see inside running chips and explore encryption threats

The work, reported by IEEE Spectrum, revolves around modifying a standard laboratory instrument, the vector network analyzer ...
ExtremeTech

Cerebras Systems Unveils 1.2 Trillion Transistor Wafer-Scale Processor for AI

Modern CPU transistor counts are enormous -- AMD announced earlier this month that a full implementation of its 7nm Epyc "Rome" CPU weighs in at 32 billion transistors. To this, Cerebras Technology ...
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Koreans create magnetic transistor that could turn every CPU into an FPGA

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul have created a transistor that is switched by magnetism, rather than electricity. This could lead to computer chips that ...
Hackaday

Introduction To MOSFET Switching Losses

Metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) see common use in applications ranging from the very small (like CPU transistors) to very large (power) switching applications. Although ...
Time

Business: Transistor Transition

No postwar industry has grown faster than electronics, and no electronic devices have paid off more handsomely than semiconductors—the tiny, spiderlike transistors, diodes, rectifiers that perform the ...