If there’s one thing everyone wants more of, it’s battery life. Phones are faster, laptops are thinner, displays are brighter ...

It's been five breakneck years since Apple unveiled Apple silicon during its first virtual WWDC keynote amid a global ...

Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre. Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth’s ...

Lindiwe Khotseng works for the University of the Western Cape. She receives funding from National Research Foundation (NRF) and Tertiary Education Support Program (TESP). Ntalane Sello does not work ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a new theoretical model explaining one way to make black silicon, an important ...

Semiconductors are a vital part of electronic devices due to their conditional conductivity, which can be controlled through various parameters. Silicon carbide is a semiconducting compound made up of ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has released the 2025 List of Critical Minerals, which includes silicon and tellurium.

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss bespoke silicon and what’s driving that customization with Kam Kittrell, vice president of product management in the Digital & Signoff group at Cadence; ...

IBM Research has developed a new way of creating contacts for carbon nanotube that it claims will open "a pathway to dramatically faster, smaller and more powerful computer chips beyond the ...