Silicon is the backbone of the semiconductor industry, but it's also interesting in its own right. Here's why it's so important in modern computing—and in many other applications.

In San Francisco a group of friends and co-workers found a way for people to give updates throughout their day in 140 characters, and Twitter was born. The great churn of Silicon Valley masks what ...

During its WWDC 2020 keynote, Apple officially confirmed its transition from Intel chips to its own Apple Silicon for the Mac. In addition to details for developers, Tim Cook announced that the ...

Scientists in the US built the first silicon transistor in 1947. Before that, the mechanics of computing had been performed by vacuum tubes, which were slow and bulky. Silicon changed everything.

One significant study in the Arctic Barents Sea examined the effects of climate change on the benthic silicon cycle. Researchers found that warming waters and declining DSi concentrations are ...