As chip manufacturers edge ever closer to the limits of what can be achieved with silicon, researchers have been exploring ways of boosting performance and power efficiency by stacking other ...
What just happened? A team of researchers at MIT, in collaboration with Georgia Tech and the Air Force Research Laboratory, has developed a new method for integrating gallium nitride (GaN) transistors ...
Chinese Apple competitor Xiaomi today announced the "Xring O1," a custom 3nm chip designed to rival Apple silicon (via Bloomberg). The company plans to switch its devices to custom silicon chips, just ...
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 ...
Photonic chips with quantum lasers are finally being built without redesigning the whole system These lasers work directly on silicon and still survive high heat for over six years University of ...
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 ...
One of Microsoft’s top silicon engineering executives—who helped launch its new Azure Cobalt processors and Azure Maia AI accelerators—has joined rival Google Cloud to lead its silicon chip technology ...
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 ...