How Sand Becomes Intelligence
It’s summer and, for many people, that means the beach. Now imagine you’re standing on a beach, picking up handfuls of sand and realizing that within these tiny grains lie the seeds of computing power. Those humble particles, with a bit of high-tech wizardry, transform into the smartphones, computers, and artificial intelligence systems that define […]
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This New Material Will Revolutionize Computing
The saying, “All that glitters is not gold,” might just gain a new, tech-savvy translation: “All that advances is not silicon.” A certain startup, making audacious strides, has built an optical chip using graphene—a material that’s just one atom thick. Not content to stop there, they’re erecting a factory to mass-produce this marvel. As someone […]
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Google’s Open Source Hardware Dreams
An overview of the Build Custom Silicon with Google program.
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Linus has the time of his life
Linus heads back to the Israel Design Center Intel Fab and this time it’s a facility tour of the Validation Lab.
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EUV: Lasers, plasma, and the Tech that Will Make Chips Faster
While the quantum computing age may be “just around the corner,” traditional computing is not going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, innovation there is increasing to keep up the promise of Moore’s Law. Engadget takes a look at the process behind making microchips faster. Microchips are one of the most complicated objects humanity has created, […]
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How To Make a Quantum Bit
Veritasium explains how to make a quantum bit, or qubit. How do you put it in a state where it is stable? How do you read and write information on it?
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Why Your Next Computer Chip Could Be Made of Gallium Oxide
Currently, computer chips are made from silicon, hence the term ‘Silicon Valley.’ However, a new material may be in the works as researchers are looking towards gallium oxide to overcome existing engineering limits and produce faster computer chips than ever before.
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