This is where the appeal of doing both the mechanics and electronics on silicon becomes most obvious.

The answer (knock on silicon) is probably not.

To produce a working screen, researchers had to develop special transistors that were based on plastic rather than silicon.

They think everything runs on silicon now - it's all this new-economy stuff.

Suppose this creature's 'organic' compounds are based on silicon instead?

A torch is no good on thick silicon bronze.

The hard part for Nick will be deciding whether to spend his money on petroleum or silicon.

More than 85% of the solar cells produced worldwide are based on crystalline silicon.

But they didn't know how to, even on silicon, how to interconnect them.

The technology Intel has been exploring is known as liquid crystal on silicon.