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Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process ...
Jan 26, 2025
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Scaling up neuromorphic computing for more efficient and effective AI everywhere and anytime
Neuromorphic computing—a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to mimic the brain's function and structure—needs to scale up if it is to effectively compete with current computing methods.
Jan 24, 2025
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Tiny chip could offer spectral sensing for everyday devices
Imagine smartphones that can diagnose diseases, detect counterfeit drugs or warn of spoiled food. Spectral sensing is a powerful technique that identifies materials by analyzing how they interact with light, revealing details ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Analog computing platform based on one-memristor array efficiently processes real-time videos
As artificial intelligence models become increasingly advanced, electronics engineers have been trying to develop new hardware that is better suited for running these models, while also limiting power-consumption and boosting ...
Next-gen AI device utilizes ion-controlled spin wave interference in magnetic materials
A research team from NIMS and the Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC) has developed a next-generation AI device—a hardware component for AI systems—that incorporates an iono-magnonic reservoir. This reservoir controls spin ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Next generation computers: New wiring material could transform chip technology
The rapid technological advancements of our world have been enabled by our capacity to design and fabricate ever smaller electronic chips. These underpin computers, mobile phones and every smart device deployed to date.
Jan 20, 2025
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Ultra-small neuromorphic chip learns and corrects errors autonomously
Existing computer systems have separate data processing and storage devices, making them inefficient for processing complex data like AI. A KAIST research team has developed a memristor-based integrated system similar to ...
Jan 17, 2025
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AI comes down from the cloud as chips get smarter
Artificial intelligence is moving from data centers to "the edge" as computer makers build the technology into laptops, robots, cars and more devices closer to home.
Jan 10, 2025
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How a neuromorphic chip could benefit industry
Neuromorphic chips that process information like the human brain—this is the goal of physicist Heidemarie Krüger and her Dresden-based startup Techifab. The researcher from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Open-source holonomic mobile manipulator could advance household robotics
Researchers at Stanford University, Princeton University, and Dexterity recently developed TidyBot++, a holonomic mobile robot that can perform various household chores and could help to train or test new algorithms for robotics ...
Hardware
Specialized hardware solves high-order optimization problems with in-memory computing
The rise of AI, graphic processing, combinatorial optimization and other data-intensive applications has resulted in data-processing bottlenecks, as ever greater amounts of data must be shuttled back and forth between the ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Nvidia's new GPU series led an avalanche of entertainment-related announcements at CES
In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Nvidia founder Jensen Huang unveils next generation of AI and gaming chips at CES 2025
In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Biggest Nvidia takeaways from Jensen Huang's CES 2025 keynote
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a suite of new products, services and partnerships at CES 2025.
Jan 7, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
EU universal charger rules come into force
EU rules requiring all new smartphones, tablets and cameras to use the same charger came into force on Saturday, in a change Brussels said will cut costs and waste.
Dec 28, 2024
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Engineers grow 'high-rise' 3D chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build up rather than out.
Dec 18, 2024
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Low-cost polymer boosts high-density data storage performance and sustainability
A new material for high density data storage can be erased and recycled in a more efficient and sustainable way, providing a potential alternative to hard disk drives, solid-state drives and flash memory in the future.
Dec 17, 2024
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Co-packaged optics enhance AI computing with high-speed connectivity
Optical fibers carry voice and data at high speeds across long distances, and IBM Research scientists are bringing this speed and capacity somewhere they haven't previously gone: inside data centers and onto circuit boards, ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Huawei's new Mate 70 phone shows its chip advances are stalling
Huawei Technologies Co.'s latest flagship smartphone is powered by a chip little different from the one that set off alarm bells in Washington a year ago, signaling a slowdown in the Chinese company's tech advances.
Dec 12, 2024
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Autonomous vehicle safety: PreFixer makes sensor hardware swaps less dangerous
Devices called encoders, located inside the sensors on autonomous cars, convert motion and other information acquired on the road into electrical signals that can then be used as feedback for the software running the vehicle ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Compact LCOS microdisplay uses fast CMOS backplane for high-speed light modulation
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, in collaboration with HOLOEYE Photonics AG, have developed a compact LCOS microdisplay with high refresh rates that enables improved optical modulation. ...
Nov 25, 2024
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Optoelectronic device mimics human vision for diversified in-sensor computing
To make sense of the world, most humans rely in great part on their vision. Recent research suggests that the human visual system is hierarchical, meaning that it processes information on different levels, ranging from the ...
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Nvidia rivals focus on building a different kind of chip to power AI products
Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which dominates the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom.
Nov 20, 2024
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Frontier supercomputer hits new highs in third year of exascale
Two-and-a-half years after breaking the exascale barrier, the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory continues to set new standards for its computing speed and performance.
Nov 19, 2024
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Lawrence Livermore supercomputer is crowned world's speediest
The Bay Area has just won a coveted crown in computing, with a massive new machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory deemed the most powerful system in the world.
Nov 19, 2024
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