Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) will start making chips with transistors as tiny as 40 nanometers (nm) in the second quarter, enabling smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient chips.

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip ...

Controlling light at the micro- and nanoscale opens up opportunities for a better understanding of the world and the development of technology. As modern electronics approaches the limits of its ...

The 40-nanometer gap that semiconductor manufacturers are preparing to leap is only as wide as a sliver of a human hair. Years of research and millions of dollars have been spent on equipment and ...

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. has introduced the industry’s first sub-40 nanometer (nm) NAND memory device, unveiling a 34nm 32 gigabit (Gb) multi-level cell chip. This process ...