Nanowerk

Vacuum channel transistor suppresses gate leakage to enter chip circuits

A vacuum channel transistor controls electrons at the cathode to suppress gate leakage, letting it work inside amplifiers and ...
EurekAlert!

A tiny vacuum tube that could outrun today’s transistors – no gate leak, no problem

For decades, the speed of transistors has been approaching its physical limit. Now, researchers have built a new type of ...
Electronic Design

Keeping Pace with AI: Why Gate-All-Around Transistors are the Answer

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the workload that defines today’s semiconductor scaling. Whether in hyperscale data centers training foundation models or at the network edge executing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Models for Both Strained and Unstrained GAA FETs Using Neural Networks

A new technical paper titled “Impact of Strain on Sub-3 nm Gate-all-Around CMOS Logic Circuit Performance Using a Neural Compact Modeling Approach” was published by researchers at Hanyang University ...

TSMC’s 2nm Breakthrough Reshapes AI Compute And Investor Expectations

TSMC (NYSE:TSM) has started mass production of 2nm chips using nanosheet Gate-All-Around transistors. The company is currently the only manufacturer producing this level of advanced silicon at scale.
EDN

Using isolated ADCs and an XNOR logic gate as a multiplier to measure active power

Multiplying two analog signals involves the use of analog multipliers, usually implemented by using log and antilog circuit blocks or the Gilbert cell. Today, the most common technique used to ...