I don't think you appreciate just how magical the computer chip at the heart of your smartphone or PC really is. In the case of a smartphone's SoC, you essentially have a single ...

If you read ExtremeTech regularly, you will have noticed that we love die shots-- close-up photographs of the transistors, wiring, and other circuitry at the core of every digital computer chip. How ...

"We are using it internally for a few chip design projects," said Dean in an interview with ZDNet Monday, following a keynote talk he gave at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, an ...

Motorola Inc. has developed a computer chip it says is 35 times faster than today's models and will cut the cost of manufacturing electronics such as cell phones and DVD players, the company announced ...

Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more powerful computer chips. The company is researching ways in ...

Stanford researchers led an international team of engineers that figured out how to pack many functions of a computer onto a single chip, including processing circuits, memory storage, and a power ...

Wireless chips are good for lots of things, but the environment definitely isn’t one of them. Most contain gallium arsenide, a chemical toxic to the lungs of small animals, and the vast majority ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - Nvidia NVDA.O dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel’s longtime stronghold of personal computers. The AI chip giant's new ...

The days of computer chips being mere pieces of tech are long gone. Now, they are very much weapons. Weapons of innovation, wealth, control, and power. That's why all the superpower nations are ...

Researchers have created a more feasible way to combine transistors and memory on a chip, potentially bringing faster computing. A computer chip processes and stores information using two different ...