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MIT finds a new way to pack more transistors on a chip

For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is ...
Science Daily

Quantum chips just proved they’re ready for the real world

Diraq has shown that its silicon-based quantum chips can maintain world-class accuracy even when mass-produced in semiconductor foundries. Achieving over 99% fidelity in two-qubit operations, the ...

Rivian announces AI chip in move towards self-driving future

Rivian also unveiled its next-generation autonomy platform, which will be run by its new chips. The proprietary, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Harnessing Silicon Lifecycle Management For Chip Security

Real-time monitoring and proactive risk mitigation can identify vulnerabilities and attacks throughout a device's lifetime, ...
The New York Times

Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era

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 ...
Nasdaq

The Shift to Custom Silicon: Why Companies Are Designing Their Own Chips

To receive tech updates in your inbox, sign up to the newsletter ARPU. Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone giant, recently announced its self-developed mobile chipset, XRING 01, reportedly built on TSMC’s ...
SDxCentral

Cisco’s Silicon One Portfolio Gets 6 New Chips

Cisco unveiled six new router and switch chips today as part of its Silicon One initiative announced last year. The 7-nanometer Q200, Q201, and Q202 routing chips and their L-series switching ...
Microsoft

AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better.

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 ...
EurekAlert!

Programmable all-optical signal processing on a silicon chip

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 ...
MacRumors

Five Years of Apple Silicon: M1 to M5 Performance Comparison

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 ...
TweakTown

Apple is first with end-to-end USA silicon supply chain, new chips produced in America

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 ...
EDN

Will wood chips replace silicon chips?

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 ...