Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw ...

Atomic-scale imperfections in graphene transistors generate unique wireless fingerprints that cannot be copied or predicted, offering a new approach to hardware security for IoT devices.

CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and ...

Cerebras’ giant chip and other advances in 2025 reflect a post-Moore’s-law shift toward parallel computing and broader AI ...

There is a tendency to picture computers as cold, precise things, sealed away in clean rooms and humming quietly under desks.

Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

A new microchip-sized device could dramatically accelerate the future of quantum computing. It controls laser frequencies ...

Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically speeding up how data moves inside the chip. Unlike traditional flat designs, ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype we look at the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025–and the year’s best music.

A device smaller than a grain of dust may help unlock the kind of quantum computers people have only dreamed about. Built on ...