Riding D-Wave
A pioneer of quantum computing asks: Has a Canadian startup really demonstrated a prototype for a working, commercially viable quantum computer?Computers process information by breaking it down into...
View ArticleMemristors Make Chips Cheaper
The first hybrid memristor-transistor chip could be cheaper and more energy efficient.Entire industries and research fields are devoted to ensuring that, every year, computers continue getting faster....
View ArticleMoore's Law
The computer chip has evolved from a simple integrated circuit to a microprocessor with millions of transistors.In 1965, when Fairchild Semiconductor’s Gordon Moore predicted that the number of...
View ArticleA New and Improved Moore's Law
Under “Koomey’s law,” it’s efficiency, not power, that doubles every year and a half.Researchers have, for the first time, shown that the energy efficiency of computers doubles roughly every 18 months.
View ArticleMoore's Law Lives Another Day
The three-dimensional transistors of Intel’s new generation of chips continue the 50-year trend of faster, more tightly packed chips.“[Gordon] Moore is my boss, and if your boss makes a law, then you’d...
View ArticleSelf-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore’s Law
Polymer molecules that self-assemble into regular patterns could help the semiconductor industry make even smaller transistors.These are challenging times for computer chip engineers. A technology the...
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