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Optical device uses humidity to unlock hidden information and offers new option for data storage
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed an optical device that reveals hidden images and changes colors in response to different levels of humidity. The technology, published in Light: Science & ...
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New light-based switch could cut chip energy use and speed future AI photonics
Photonic devices are hardware systems that can process information using light instead of electricity. These systems could potentially perform computations faster than electronic devices, while also consuming less energy.
May 24, 2026
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Signal-folding design helps neuromorphic chip slash AI energy use
Artificial intelligence systems, such as large language models (LLMs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), can analyze large amounts of data and rapidly generate desired content or identify meaningful patterns. However, ...
Thermal 'tug-of-war' enables memory with 66× lower energy consumption
Researchers have developed a memory technology that can store and retain data using almost no electricity by controlling spin states through temperature changes. The work, led by researchers from POSTECH and Chungnam National ...
May 13, 2026
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Memristor chip merges memory and computing, cutting AI power use by more than half
With a simple click, your hastily taken photo sharpens, a garbled voice message turns into polished text and a chatbot drafts an email in perfect prose. Today's digital tools, enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), seem ...
May 8, 2026
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Inspired by the brain, researchers build smarter and more efficient computer hardware
As traditional computer chips reach their physical limits and artificial intelligence demands more energy than ever, University of Missouri researchers are rethinking how computers work by taking cues from the human brain. ...
May 7, 2026
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Silicon oscillators solve computer problems that would take thousands of years using semiconductors
In the era of big data and artificial intelligence, a new approach has emerged for solving combinatorial optimization problems, which involves finding the most efficient solution among many possible options and can otherwise ...
May 6, 2026
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A hardware-software co-design can efficiently run AI on edge devices
A new hardware-software co-design increases AI energy efficiency and reduces latency, enabling real-time processing of continuous data streams like video or sensor feeds. The neuromorphic approach unlocks the ability to run ...
Apr 11, 2026
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Prototype chip could boost efficiency of power management in data centers
In an effort to meet the rising energy demands of data centers, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new chip design that could improve how graphics processing units (GPUs) convert and manage ...
Apr 8, 2026
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New software may nearly double pooled SSD performance in data centers
To improve data center efficiency, multiple storage devices are often pooled together over a network so many applications can share them. But even with pooling, significant device capacity remains underutilized due to performance ...
Apr 7, 2026
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Memristor chip combines security and compute-in-memory for edge devices
A cross-institutional research team has developed Co-Located Authentication and Processing (CLAP), a privacy-preserving system that overcomes the trade-off between security and performance in edge computing devices. The study, ...
Apr 6, 2026
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New memristor design uses built-in oxygen gradient to bring stability to reinforcement learning
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers created a memristor that uses a built-in oxygen gradient to produce slow, stable conductance changes, enabling a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to learn ...
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Brain-inspired chip could make some AI tasks up to 2,000 times more energy efficient
A new type of computer chip that uses the physics of materials to process information could make some artificial intelligence (AI) systems far more energy efficient, researchers have found. Loughborough University physicists ...
Apr 2, 2026
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New memory chip survives temperatures hotter than lava
The electronics inside your phone, your car, and every satellite currently orbiting Earth share one critical weakness: heat. Push them past about 200 degrees Celsius and they start to fail. For decades, that thermal ceiling ...
Mar 31, 2026
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Three-in-one diode integrates sensing, memory and processing for smart cameras
Think about how easily you recognize a friend in a dimly lit room. Your eyes capture light, while your brain filters out background noise, retrieves stored visual information, and processes the image to make a match. It all ...
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Brain-inspired AI hardware helps autonomous devices operate efficiently and independently
The human brain constantly makes decisions. It requires minimal power to move bodies in a desired direction or avoid an object. A Purdue University engineer uses the brain's efficiency as inspiration to help autonomous vehicles, ...
Mar 27, 2026
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Holographic storage approach packs more data into the same space by encoding three properties of light
Researchers have developed a holographic data storage approach that stores and retrieves information in three dimensions by combining three properties of light—amplitude, phase and polarization. By allowing more data to be ...
Mar 26, 2026
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Artificial pain sensing gets closer: One memristor links heat and touch responses
An international research team has reported an artificial nociceptor system that captures the temperature-dependent threshold modulation of biological nociceptors. Published in Advanced Functional Materials under the title ...
Mar 26, 2026
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Memristor demonstrates use in fully analog hardware-based neural network
As AI processing demands reach the limits of current CMOS technology, neuromorphic computing—hardware and software that mimic the human brain's structure—can help process information faster and more efficiently. A new memristor ...
Mar 25, 2026
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Graphene receivers bring energy-efficient 6G hardware closer to reality
Thanks to the 5th generation (5G) technology, we now enjoy unprecedented levels of connectivity. Nevertheless, wireless data traffic is facing an increasing demand for an even higher capacity and faster data transfer—a demand ...
Mar 25, 2026
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Sensor chips help identify deepfakes by adding cryptographic signatures to camera data
AI-generated images and videos pose a threat to democratic processes and undermine trust within society. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed chip technology that enables verification of the authenticity of sensor ...
Mar 24, 2026
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New detector chip compresses X-ray data 100- to 200-fold in real time
Every second, scientific experiments produce a flood of data—so much that transmitting and analyzing it can slow down even the most advanced research. To help scientists better manage this data deluge, researchers at the ...
Mar 24, 2026
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Brain-inspired nanoelectronic device could cut AI hardware energy use by 70%
Researchers have developed a new kind of nanoelectronic device that could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware by mimicking the human brain. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, ...
Mar 20, 2026
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Expanding computing resources with light for AI datacenters
A team of Korean researchers has developed the world's first technology that can freely connect and disconnect core computing resources such as memory and accelerators with "light" in next-generation artificial intelligence ...
Mar 20, 2026
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Communication-aware neural networks could advance edge computing
Edge computing is an emerging IT architecture that enables the processing of data locally by smartphones, autonomous vehicles, local servers, and other IoT devices instead of sending it to be processed at a centralized large ...
