transistors

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of transistor.
  transistor

  noun

  a semiconductor device that amplifies, oscillates, or switches the flow of current between two terminals by varying the current or voltage between one of the terminals and a third: although much smaller in size than a vacuum tube, it performs similar functions without requiring current to heat a cathode.

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A cadence where the number of transistors on a given piece of silicon doubled roughly every two years took hold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Making better chips for AI is increasingly about how they are laid out and stitched together—not just cramming together as many transistors as possible on a single piece of silicon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Their computations, which are in effect the switching on and off of microscopic silicon transistors that make up a chip, are actually silent.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

They engineered two versions of bacterial transistors that respond to a molecule called OC 6.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

It governs the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits, which are the essential components of electronic devices such as televisions and computers, and is also the basis of modern chemistry and biology.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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