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Novel memristor wafer integration technology paves the way for brain-like AI chips
A research team led by Professor Sanghyeon Choi from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at DGIST has successfully developed a memristor, which is gaining recognition as a next-generation semiconductor ...
Nov 5, 2025
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Scalable memtransistor arrays show potential for energy-efficient artificial neural networks
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have fabricated ultra-thin memtransistor arrays from two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) with controllable Schottky barriers. These arrays ...
Nov 5, 2025
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RRAM-based analog computing system rapidly solves matrix equations with high precision
Analog computers are systems that perform computations by manipulating physical quantities such as electrical current, that map math variables, instead of representing information using abstraction with discrete binary values ...
AI efficiency advances with spintronic memory chip that combines storage and processing
To make accurate predictions and reliably complete desired tasks, most artificial intelligence (AI) systems need to rapidly analyze large amounts of data. This currently entails the transfer of data between processing and ...
Neuromorphic computer prototype learns patterns with fewer computations than traditional AI
Could computers ever learn more like humans do, without relying on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that must undergo extremely expensive training?
Oct 29, 2025
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Unified memristor-ferroelectric memory developed for energy-efficient training of AI systems
Over the past decades, electronics engineers have developed a wide range of memory devices that can safely and efficiently store increasing amounts of data. However, the different types of devices developed to date come with ...
Oct 27, 2025
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Beyond electronics: Optical system performs feature extraction with unprecedented low latency
Many modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as surgical robotics and real-time financial trading, depend on the ability to quickly extract key features from streams of raw data. This process is currently bottlenecked ...
Oct 27, 2025
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Reinventing computer technology for the benefit of data centers
In the largest computer systems project ever undertaken at EPFL, an international team of researchers has come up with a new way of building computers to help tackle the increasing challenges faced by data centers.
Oct 21, 2025
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Team develops high-speed, ultra-low-power superconductive neuron device
A research team has developed a neuron device that holds potential for application in large-scale, high-speed superconductive neural network circuits. The device operates at high speeds with ultra-low-power consumption and ...
Oct 17, 2025
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Group including Nvidia, BlackRock buying Aligned Data Centers in deal worth about $40 billion
A group including BlackRock, Nvidia and Microsoft is buying Aligned Data Centers in an approximately $40 billion deal in an effort to expand next-generation cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Oct 16, 2025
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Next-generation memory: Tungsten-based SOT-MRAM achieves nanosecond switching and low-power data storage
The ability to reliably switch the direction of magnetic alignment in materials, a process known as magnetization switching, is known to be central to the functioning of most memory devices. One known strategy to achieve ...
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Vulnerability in confidential cloud environments uncovered
Some data is so sensitive that it is processed only in specially protected cloud areas. These are designed to ensure that not even a cloud provider can access the data. ETH Zurich researchers have now found a vulnerability ...
Oct 13, 2025
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AI-powered method helps protect global chip supply chains from cyber threats
University of Missouri researchers have used artificial intelligence to detect hidden hardware trojans through a method that's 97% accurate.
Oct 13, 2025
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AI tools can help hackers plant hidden flaws in computer chips, study finds
Widely available artificial intelligence systems can be used to deliberately insert hard-to-detect security vulnerabilities into the code that defines computer chips, according to new research from the NYU Tandon School of ...
Oct 9, 2025
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Hardware vulnerability allows attackers to hack AI training data
Researchers from NC State University have identified the first hardware vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) users by exploiting the physical hardware on which ...
Oct 8, 2025
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New haptic system lets soft objects respond to taps, squeezes and twists
New technology that invites expressive, two-way communication between a person and the soft, flexible object they are holding or wearing has been developed at the University of Bath.
Oct 8, 2025
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Back to the future: Is light-speed analog computing on the horizon?
Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in analog computing, developing a programmable electronic circuit that harnesses the properties of high-frequency electromagnetic waves to perform complex parallel processing at light-speed.
Oct 7, 2025
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The lord of the ring mouse—a lightweight, ring-based computer mouse lasts over a month on a single charge
As the use of wearable devices such as augmented reality (AR) glasses has slowly but steadily increased, so too has the desire to control these devices in an easy and convenient way. Ring controllers worn on the finger already ...
Oct 6, 2025
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Cracking a long-standing weakness in a classic algorithm for programming reconfigurable chips
Researchers from EPFL, AMD, and the University of Novi Sad have uncovered a long-standing inefficiency in the algorithm that programs millions of reconfigurable chips used worldwide, a discovery that could reshape how future ...
Oct 3, 2025
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Semiconductor neuron mimics brain's memory and adaptive response abilities
The human brain does more than simply regulate synapses that exchange signals; individual neurons also process information through intrinsic plasticity, the adaptive ability to become more sensitive or less sensitive depending ...
Sep 30, 2025
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New design tackles integer factorization problems through digital probabilistic computing
Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) are advanced and specialized computing systems that could tackle computationally hard problems, such as optimization or integer factorization tasks, more efficiently than classical systems. ...
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Miniaturized ion traps show promise of 3D printing for quantum-computing hardware
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara have miniaturized quadrupole ion traps for the first time with 3D printing—a breakthrough ...
Sep 22, 2025
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Material that listens: Chip-based approach enables speech recognition and more
Speech recognition without heavy software or energy-hungry processors: researchers at the University of Twente, together with IBM Research Europe and Toyota Motor Europe, present a completely new approach. Their chips allow ...
Sep 17, 2025
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New chip design cuts AI energy use by enabling smarter FPGA processing
A new innovation from Cornell researchers lowers the energy use needed to power artificial intelligence—a step toward shrinking the carbon footprints of data centers and AI infrastructure.
Sep 15, 2025
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Silent deep bass: Wearable audio you can feel
Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed a portable, silent subwoofer that combines electrical muscle stimulation with low-frequency vibrations. This device enables users to physically feel deep bass in virtual ...
Sep 12, 2025
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