Transistor: A transistor is an electronic switch ... from modularity to meeting power usage requirements. All of this falls under the general category of semiconductor packaging.

Starting with hot sulphuric acid is probably not everyone’s idea of a day at the bench, but having used it to strip the epoxy from the CH340, he’s able to take a look under the microscope.

A wire-bonded die consisting of over 20 gallium nitride high-electron mobility transistors, seen here under a microscope, could be used in nuclear sensing equipment because of its high resistance ...

The Pentium was made on an 800nm process, with the above die shot taken through stitched-together microscope photography. The die contains 3.1 million transistors, with transistor grids being ...