Phone batteries are always improving, which is why (in most cases) battery life creeps up with each new generation. But there has been excellent research around the world into innovations that could lead to huge leaps in battery life, more than anything we’ve seen before. Samsung’s made that a bit more official in a joint announcement with IBM about battery technology that could mean you wouldn’t need to worry about a charger for days at a time.
What’s the big deal? It’s called VTFET, or Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors. This is the most advanced form of technology IBM has been working on, built to stack transistors vertically. If you’ve ever seen any kind of computer chip, you know they tend to be super thin. This design innovation would allow them to build upwards, the way cities can build upwards with skyscrapers (okay, sort of)….