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With Processor Speeds Stagnating, Researchers Look Beyond Silicon Toward...
Flexible Silicon More flexible circuits can help silicon stay relevant in the future of computing Science/University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignShould silicon stay or go? After a breathless race...
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Limitless, Cheap Chips Made Out of DNA Could Replace Silicon
A Single Waffle Structure Nanotechnology never looked so delicious. Chris Dwyer, Duke UniversitySilicon chips are on the way out, at least if Duke University engineer Chris Dwyer has his way. The...
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Fastest Integrated Circuit Doubles the Previous Record, Getting Close to One...
The Fastest Integrated Circuit The 670 GHz compact circuit layout (right), alongside a detail of Northrop Grumman's 30-nanometer Indium Phosphide T-gate (left). Northrop GrummanFollowing up on a 2007...
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Working Microbarbershop and Microchessboard Win Sandia Design Awards
Microbarbershop A microbarbershop designed by University of Utah students won a design award from Sandia National Laboratories. It includes a micro-cutter, micro-mirror and a neon lion. Sandia National...
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Tiny, Five-Nanometer Silicon Oxide Switches Could Create Single Chips With...
The Silicon Oxide ChipJun Yao/Rice UniversityEven with great strides being made regularly in the realms of nanotech and materials science, Moore's Law - the notion that the number of transistors that...
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A Dishless Future: New Flat Antennas Can Work As Satellite TV Signal Receivers
The Multi-Processor ChipSatellite dishes as we know them - both the huge ones that require a corner of the backyard and the more modern, compact variety that mount on rooftops - could be on their way...
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Physicists Conjure the First Super-Photon, Creating a Whole New Kind of Light...
The Super-Photon The University of Bonn team in the lab (left) and an artist's rendering of their "super-photon."Volker Lannert / University of Bonn (left) and Jan Klaers/University of BonnPhysicists...
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Bendable Microchips: The World's First Organic Microprocessor Is Unveiled
Organic Microprocessors Flexible organic transistors could vastly improve the quality and reduce the cost of flexible displays like e-paper. Windell Oskay via WikimediaThis week at the International...
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Silicon Chips Wired With Nerve Cells Could Enable New Brain/Machine Interfaces
Nerve Cells (Illustrated)Benedict Campbell/Wellcome Images via FlickrIt's reminiscent of Cartman's runaway Trapper Keeper notebook in that long-ago episode of South Park, but researchers at the...
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How It Works: The Light-Driven Computer
New integrated circuits use photons to build fast and extremely power-efficient supercomputers The speed of light is as fast as it gets, and IBM researchers are exploiting that fact to give...
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Amazing Inventions Spring From Hacker Clubs as Membership Soars
"Brain Machine" in TokyoScott Beale/Laughing Squid and Mitch AltmanHacker spaces are cropping up all over the globe Nearly 150 hacker spaces have opened in the U.S. in the past three years. Rather than...
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Reprogrammable Chips Could Allow You to Update Your Hardware Just Like Software
Tabula's ABAX ChipTabulaIn virtual 3-D! The rapid pace of innovation and the relentless pressure of Moore's Law means new and better gadgets are always coming to market, but it also means whatever you...
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Intel to Mass-Produce New 3-D Transistors for Faster, More Efficient Computer...
3-D Transistor This image shows the vertical fins of Intel's 22 nanometer microprocessor using 3-D Tri-Gate transistors. IntelIn a move that could remake the microchip industry, Intel announced...
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MIT's Tiny Energy-Harvester Makes Electricity From Low-Frequency Vibrations
MIT's Mini-Energy-Harvester A new energy harvesting device converts low-frequency vibrations into electricity. The device, the size of a U.S. quarter, is shown mounted on a stand Arman HajatiThe...
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IBM Transistors Made Of Nanotubes Could Replace Silicon, In Ever-Tinier...
Logic Gates From Carbon NanotubesIBM via ExtremeTechSilicon can't keep up with our demand for smaller and faster chips, but IBM researchers may have found a way to continue accelerating chip...
View ArticleBendable Microchips: The World's First Organic Microprocessor Is Unveiled
This week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (you didn't forget about the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, did you?) a team of European…
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It’s reminiscent of Cartman’s runaway Trapper Keeper notebook in that long-ago episode of South Park, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may be scratching…
View ArticleHow It Works: The Light-Driven Computer
The speed of light is as fast as it gets, and IBM researchers are exploiting that fact to give supercomputers a boost. They've made the smallest-yet silicon chips that use…
View ArticleAmazing Inventions Spring From Hacker Clubs as Membership Soars
Nearly 150 hacker spaces have opened in the U.S. in the past three years. Rather than havens of illicit computing, these communal workshops are places for members, in…
View ArticleReprogrammable Chips Could Allow You to Update Your Hardware Just Like Software
The rapid pace of innovation and the relentless pressure of Moore’s Law means new and better gadgets are always coming to market, but it also means whatever you just bought…
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