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• Scientists carve up tiny transistors to one atom thick

  British scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest transistor, measuring one atom in thickness and 10 atoms in width.

• Transistor hits 60th birthday

  Sixty years ago, on 16 December, scientists at Bell Labs--William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain--built the world's first transistor and nothing has been the same since.

• IBM explores biological binary for chip refinery

  Can scientists use the binary of biology, DNA, to grow carbon nanotubes into more efficient circuits? IBM thinks so.

• AMD opens the transistor gates

  Advanced Micro Devices has created new high-performance transistors in its labs based on the simple concept that sometimes two are better than one.

• We're fifty years into the future

  Ladies and gentlemen - please raise your glasses and toast the Regency TR-1.

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• Photos: The history of the transistor

  In the 60 years since its invention, the transistor has shrunk from hulking origins to the point where more than six billion can fit in an area the size of a credit card. Follow the history of the transistor from its humble origins in Bell Labs to its possible quantum future.

• Double-gate chip stops power leakage

  IBM scientists have made a working RAM chip with two gates for conducting electricity, but problems remain in developing a manufacturing process.

• How the Woz shaped Apple

  Though Apple's success has made Steve Jobs' name well-known in many a household, few know much about co-founder Steve Wozniak. But, says Seb Janacek, "the Woz" played at least as crucial a role in shaping the PC industry as Jobs.

• 'Strained silicon' to pump up chips

  Processor powerhouses IBM and Intel are set to reveal their plans to use the 'strained silicon' technique to build faster, power-efficient chips--and maybe break free of Moore's Law.

• Intel's Mr. Chips takes final bow

  Before leaving his post as CEO, Intel's Craig Barrett wants to make a few things perfectly clear.

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• Nanowire or nanotube? Intel looks ahead

  The nanotechnology era is here, and Intel is looking at all the options. Penny-sized weather sensors, cheap technology for all -- the future looks bright!

• IBM finds new way to make nanotubes

  Researchers at IBM have revealed a new process for fabricating carbon nanotubes that could be incorporated into processors, a breakthrough that could lead to more powerful computers in the coming decades.

• Scientists team up for nanotube breakthrough

  Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and to test the nanotubes, which could help pave the way for carbon chips.

• Intel chips to do double duty

  In the future, Intel's processors will have split personalities.

• Chip talk

  What technologies are chip manufacturers using to create smaller and smaller chips?

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