The journey of a chip starts with ordinary quartz-rich sand that contains silicon dioxide. It's heated and refined into pure silicon with the use of lasers.

Researchers showed that creating computer chips made out of honey is possible. Researchers believe that neuromorphic computer chips can be made more unique and more biodegradable in the future.

DURHAM, N.C. -- It’s been more than a year since Congress passed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which invests $52 billion in federal subsidies and another $24 billion in tax credits to ...

Future computer chips could be built on top of mushrooms, making a flexible circuit that is environmentally friendly and biodegradable.

We’re one step closer to biodegradable gadgets. These computer chips are made almost entirely out of wood. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin, ...

Building a computer chip might seem like a typical process similar to constructing a car in a factory, but it's significantly more complex and microscopic.

U.S. and Chinese researchers have developed semiconductor chips that are nearly entirely made out of wood-derived material. Aside from being biodegradable, the chips could be produced for only a ...

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Most people need toilet paper and computer chips every day, and yet we rarely think about either of ...

Before we invest in making more chips on U.S. soil, we should be asking what we’re trying to achieve.

Sketching out a computer chip is both complex and intricate, requiring designers to arrange billions of components on a surface smaller than a fingernail.