Category: Nanotech

After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced…

Using liquid metal, scientists have devised a new way to make electronics that assemble themselves. With prototypes including nanoscale to microscale transistors and diodes, the researchers suggest their research might help greatly simplify…

The future of memory is massive, diverse, and tightly integrated with processing. That was the message of an invited talk this week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco. H.-S. Philip Wong, an electrical engineer at…

This week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, research teams spanning academia and industry presented data on high-performance carbon nanotube transistors (CNTs) and circuits. While it may be a decade or more before…

TSMC described its next generation transistor technology this week at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco. The N2, or 2-nanometer, technology is the semiconductor foundry giant’s first foray into a new…

The semiconductor industry’s long held imperative—Moore’s Law, which dictates that transistor densities on a chip should double roughly every two years—is getting more and more difficult to maintain. The ability to shrink down

Thanks to generous funding from the ON Semiconductor Foundation, TryEngineering has partnered with IEEE members to develop several new resources about semiconductors for middle school educators. The resources include lesson plans, an e-book, and…