Revolutionary New Intelligent Transistor Developed

https://scitechdaily.com ^ | DECEMBER 21, 2021 | Vienna University Of Technology

[Red Badger]

That’s why the put fans on them!..................

[GOP_Party_Animal]

[Red Badger]

If you can call 1 um ‘big’..................................😜

[Bobalu]

Yup, that’s probably what they were.

A nasty stink and unhealthy to breath much of it.

[babygene]

I remember 50 years ago in school, I suggested (tongue in cheek) that we needed, in addition to and’s and or’s and nand’s, we should have a maybe gate...

[OrioleFan]

I remember when we wrote program overlays because the programs were too big to fit in the mainframe’s memory. - ex Control Data Corporation programmer here.

[Red Badger]

Not enough ferrite beads?....................................

[backwoods-engineer]

This isn't unique; programmable-threshold MOSFETs have been on the market for years; I've bought them.

Germanium isn't going to be mass-manufactured; there's a reason it was left behind for silicon, and why SiGe has gotten so much attention in the last 20 years.

The idea of a separate control gate for minority carriers is kind of unique; maybe something will come of that. Indeed, that could be used to reduce the number of transistors required for a logic circuit. Sort of analogous to multiple-element vacuum tubes (valves for the Brits) or dual-gate MOSFETs but with more degrees of freedom.

[backwoods-engineer]

Leave a CMOS gate input floating, and a “maybe” gate is exactly what results...

[Renkluaf]

Cool

[BiteYourSelf]

I guess Bob was busy.😏

[GingisK]

The 68000 was always the better of the two.