In 2020, Kenton Smith, an engineer, was peering through a microscope at electronic devices, admiring the intricate designs. As he studied something called a voltage comparator, he saw a face staring ...
The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...
For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is running into hard physical limits. A new approach from MIT aims to sidestep ...
Microsoft reported today it has successfully tested a new cooling system that removed heat up to three times better than cold plates. The system is called microfluidics, an approach that brings liquid ...
The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...
For the first time, scientists have created a fully functional memory chip only a few atoms thick and integrated it into conventional chips. This advance could pave the way for more powerful and ...
With AI being the biggest change in IT infrastructure since the Dot Com boom, it was no surprise that at the annual Cisco Live event last month in San Diego, the focus was on AI – and particularly ...
A new terahertz technique reveals nanometer-scale PN junction depths in silicon chips, enabling faster, non-contact inspection for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. (Nanowerk News) Silicon ...
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Apple silicon chip that replaced Intel chips in Apple's Mac lineup. The first Apple silicon chip, the M1, was unveiled on November 10, 2020. The M1 debuted in ...
TL;DR: Apple is expanding its American silicon supply chain with a $100 billion investment in US manufacturing, partnering with key firms like TSMC Arizona, GlobalWafers America, and Applied Materials ...
Battery innovation doesn’t always get the spotlight, but maybe it should. After all, it’s one of the few things that truly defines the day-to-day user experience. Over the years, smartphone processors ...
I have never liked to hear the colloquial word “chips” as a shorthand term for integrated circuits, except when it is used between engineers who actually know what an IC really is. When it is used by ...