Silicon qubits surpass 99.99% gate fidelity while operating three at once

Silicon spin qubits are a promising platform for building scalable quantum computers as they are compatible with the ...
Wired

Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work

Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing ...
MIT Technology Review

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

But a new study shows that work use cases make up less of the picture than AI companies claim. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like ...
BIOENGINEER

Scientists Build Living Circuit Boards Using Printed Bacterial Transistors

Scientists have built living circuit boards by printing bacterial cells into carefully arranged patterns, creating reconfigurable biological computers that can perform logic operations without ...
Snopes.com

Did Trump confuse 'transistor' with 'transgender' in speech criticizing CHIPS Act? We examined footage

In July 2026, social media posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump confused the words "transistor" and "transgender" during a speech criticizing the CHIPS and Science Act, a 2022 bipartisan effort ...
New Atlas

IBM's fingernail-sized chip fits 100 billion transistors

IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few ...
CNET

IBM’s New Chip Fits Nearly 100 Billion Transistors in the Size of a Fingernail

IBM on Thursday unveiled the first chip created using its latest semiconductor technologies, one that holds nearly 100 billion transistors in a fleck of hardware no bigger than your fingernail.
Forbes

IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion 3D-Stacked Transistors

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ZDNet

IBM says it can fit nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip – why the milestone matters

TSMC, Intel, and Samsung have all been pushing to produce low‑single‑nanometer chips in the next two years, while planning to produce sub-nanometer chips sometime by decade’s end. That race may be ...
MIT Technology Review

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up. IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the ...
Harvard Business Review

How People Are Really Using AI in 2026

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...
Phys.org

Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors ...