Transistors are used to perform complex calculations based on long series of 0s and 1s: a 32-bit CPU can add, subtract and perform several functions on data that contains a total of 32 0s and 1s.

Without transistors the modern world would simply not exist. But how do they work, and how do modern, atomic sized versions compare with the originals?

Modern computer chips contain billions of transistors etched onto a fingernail-sized piece of silicon. In fact, a typical smartphone processor now contains on the order of 15 billion transistors ...

Today's transistors can switch millions or even billions of times per second, enabling the astonishing speeds of modern processors. Why Silicon?

A movie explaining in an easy-to-understand manner what the transistor is doing with the electronic device "How transistors work"Has been released.

At an event today in San Francisco, Intel announced one of the most important pieces of semiconductor news in many years: the company's upcoming 22nm processors will feature a fundamental change ...

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors.… ...

With these new transistors created by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, future processors could potentially use 85 percent fewer transistors than they do today.