Moore's Law

How to predict the progress of technologyMIT researcher finds Moore’s Law and Wright’s Law best predict how technology improves.

Storing data in individual moleculesAn international team of researchers demonstrates the possibility of molecular memory near room temperature.

Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominanceMIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.

Straining forwardNanowires made of ‘strained silicon’ — silicon whose atoms have been pried slightly apart — show how to keep increases in computer power coming.

Life after siliconResearchers in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories are making the case for using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving.