A new microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors but is very energy efficient. The “KiloCore” chip can process 1.78 trillion instructions per second, contains 621 million transistors, and could be powered by a single AA battery.
Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore famously predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits would continue to double every two years. His observation, dubbed “Moore’s Law” h... Read More...
An example CDSAXS scattering pattern (left) shows the interference patterns created by the shape of the nanostructure, which ultimately yield a "best fit" shape model (top, right). The corresponding cross-sect... Read More...
A conventional chip on the left and Stanford's new stacked chip on the right
Carbon nanotubes solve many engineering challenges, and now a team from Stanford University has used them to make a computer chip... Read More...
This month at a lab in Silicon Valley, IBM displayed a system that is like a digital brain. The machine, called TrueNorth, is made up of chips that were inspired by neurons, the cells that transmit information ... Read More...
IBM has just announced a milestone for the semiconductor industry that will enable 20 billion transistors to be placed on a chip the size of a fingernail. In 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, predicted th... Read More...
University of Alberta engineers have designed nano-optical cables that are ten times smaller than current fiber optic cables. These new nano-optical cables are small enough to replace copper wiring that is curr... Read More...