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Silicon Valley needs to get back to silicon
Before Silicon Valley was all apps and ad tech, it was about atoms—not just bits. The future of innovation depends on ...
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US firm unveils light-powered computer to tackle energy-hungry AI problems
Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter unveils a revolutionary computer chip using light to accelerate AI tasks and reduce energy ...
Major Quantum Computing Advance: Scientists Break 25-Year Barrier in Chip Fabrication
Engineers and physicists at UCL have developed a new fabrication process for building quantum computers that achieves an ...
Lightmatter shows new type of computer chip that could reduce AI energy use
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter revealed on Wednesday it had developed a new type of computer ...
Diamond Devices Break Limits: Scientists Unveil New High-Performance Nuclear-Grade Transistor
A step forward in the development of diamond CMOS integrated circuits. A research team at NIMS has developed the world’s ...
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Design a circuit for ultra-low power sensor applications
An ultra-low power sensor operates using energy harvesting from various sources for efficient monitoring. The oscillator ...
Taiwan’s latest computer chip has serious implications for technology – and the island’s security
On April 1, 2025, the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC introduced the world’s most advanced microchip: the 2 nanometre (2nm) chip.
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World’s most complex 2D, one-nanometer-thick semiconductor chip developed in China
Scientists in China have developed the world’s most complex two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor microprocessor, which ...
A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon
A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses ...
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Fudan team develops new kind of chips
After five years of research and development, the Fudan University team created WUJI using the 32-bit RISC-V architecture and ...
A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor
It can only add single bits at a time and is limited to kilohertz clock speeds, but it is capable of executing the full ...
Intel promises its next-gen Pather Lake laptop CPU will have the 'efficiency of Lunar Lake and the performance of Arrow Lake' and is on track for 2026
Jim Johnson, Intel's head of client computing, told the assembled Intel Vision 2025 throng that Panther Lake, "combines the power efficiency of Lunar Lake, the performance of Arrow Lake, and it's ...