600% Boost: Scientists Develop Game-Changing AI Chip With Impressive Energy Efficiency
A new AI chip could potentially increase energy efficiency by six times, aligning computation and data storage in a manner akin to biological neural networks…
Computer Chips News
Computer chips, also known as microchips or integrated circuits (ICs), are the foundational components of modern electronic devices. These tiny pieces of semiconducting material, typically silicon, contain numerous electronic circuits that can perform a variety of tasks, from simple calculations to complex processing functions. Computer chips are critical for the functioning of computers, smartphones, and a wide range of other digital devices, enabling them to process data and execute instructions efficiently. There are several types of chips, including microprocessors, memory chips (such as RAM and flash memory), and specialized chips like GPUs (graphics processing units). The development and miniaturization of computer chips have been guided by Moore’s Law, which predicts the doubling of transistors on a microchip approximately every two years, leading to exponential growth in computing power and capabilities. This technology underpins advancements in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and various other fields, making it a cornerstone of the digital age.
Unique New Material Could Generate More Computing Power and Memory Storage While Using Significantly Less Energy
Researchers from the University of Minnesota successfully create thin film of unique semimetal for the first time. For the first time, a team from the…
The Security System of the Future – Electronic Devices Could Use “Logic Locks” To Fend Off Malicious Attacks
Electronic devices of the future may have improved security measures integrated into their circuitry to help defend against malicious attacks. Researchers from King Abdullah University…
Computer Chips That Imitate the Brain
A new microelectronics device can program and reprogram computer hardware on demand by using electrical pulses What if a computer could learn to rewire its…
Atomic Layer Etching Could Lead to Ever-More Powerful Microchips and Supercomputers
Over the course of almost 60 years, the information age has given the world the internet, smart phones, and lightning-fast computers. This has been made…
Innovative Process for ‘Extremely’ Energy-Efficient Logic Circuits
Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy — so much…
New Low-Power Chip Will Help Miniature Drones Navigate
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further,…
Integrating Photonics with Silicon Nanoelectronics Into Chip Designs
New technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs. Two and a half years ago, a…
Optoelectronic Chips Reduce Energy Usage, Increase Speed
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds. With novel optoelectronic chips and a…
New Chip Reduces Neural Networks’ Power Consumption by 95 Percent
Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy of neural networks, densely interconnected meshes of simple information processors…
MIT Engineers Develop Special-Purpose Computer Chip for Encryption
Most sensitive web transactions are protected by public-key cryptography, a type of encryption that lets computers share information securely without first agreeing on a secret…
TrueNorth Computer Chip Emulates Human Cognition
Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait until everyone in all the other cubicles completed the tasks…
Yale Engineers Develop A New Chip That Could Advance Quantum Technology
Yale engineers have developed a new device that converts visible light to infrared light suitable for fiber-optic transmission without destroying the light’s quantum state. The…
MIT Researchers Develop a New Way of Managing Memory on Computer Chips
Engineers from MIT have found a new way of managing memory on computer chips, using circuit space much more efficiently and more consistent with existing…
New Energy-Friendly Chip Can Perform Powerful AI Tasks
Engineers from MIT have designed a new chip to implement neural networks. It is 10 times as efficient as a mobile GPU, so it could…
New Technique Could Enable Chips with Thousands of Cores
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores. Researchers from MIT have unveiled the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence…
“Fingerprinting” Chips to Aid in Fight Against Counterfeiting
MIT spinout Verayo has created technology that tracks random variations in silicon chips to assign them unique “fingerprints” to aid in the fight against worldwide…
New Approach Improves Execution Times and Efficiency of Multicore Chips
New research from MIT describes a system that cleverly distributes data around multicore chips’ memory banks, improving execution times by 18 percent on average while…