Editor’s Pick

All time, we have been benefiting from microchips, whether communicating over the smartphone, monitoring fire hazards, or tracking pets. Microchips determine how accurately missiles fly and hit targets and how…

Semiconductor billionaires are everywhere, even in less developed countries. Most of us carry several billion semiconductor devices in our pockets. A typical smartphone has a few billion semiconductor devices–transistors. For…

Unlike a nuclear bomb or jumbo jet, a Transistor is a tiny three-legged device. It’s made from the widely available cheapest material on the earth—sand. But its roles in civilian…