Infineon Technologies AG unveils its first gallium nitride (GaN) transistor family qualified to the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) standard for automotive applications. The new CoolGaN ...

So What Was the Transistor Good For? Transistors may have been useful to the phone company and to a handful of scientists building computers, but that wasn't enough to build an industry. Companies ...

A type of 3D FinFET transistor from Intel introduced in 2011 with its Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. The "tri" in Tri-Gate means the gate wraps around three sides of a fin-shaped channel from source to ...

Two tuners were developed for this receiver. The more sensitive one uses tetrode transistors in the RF amplifier, mixer and oscillator. Its disadvantages lie in a much higher cost and a 12 to 14 db ...

Founded in 1955, Shockley Semiconductor was the brainchild of William Shockley. When he was ready to leave Bell Labs, he decided to form a company to build transistors. Funded by Beckman Instruments, ...