Ferromagnetism and superconductivity don’t play well together. Ordinarily the two phenomena—ferromagnetism grants garden-variety permanent magnets their magnetic fields and superconductivity ...
At TSMC’s North American Technology Symposium on Wednesday, the company detailed both its semiconductor technology and chip-packaging technology road maps. While the former is key to keeping t...
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Smart roads with advanced vehicle-sensing capabilities could be the linchpin of future intelli...
Modern smartphone touchscreens offer edge-to-edge glass and use advanced bonding that makes the screen nearly flush with the surface of the phone. Beneath it, however, there’s still layer upon ...
Encryption today is typically a game of very large numbers. Some of today’s cryptographic systems, like RSA or elliptic-curve cryptography , utilize as keys integers that are hundreds or thous...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/post-quantum-cryptography-2667758178
Neural networks that imitate the workings of the human brain now often generate art , power computer vision , and drive many more applications . Now a neural network microchip from China that use...
Although the race to power the massive ambitions of AI companies might seem like it’s all about Nvidia, there is a real competition going in AI accelerator chips. The latest example: At Intel�...
A new breed of AI-powered coding tools have emerged—and they’re claiming to be more autonomous versions of earlier assistants like GitHub Copilot , Amazon CodeWhisperer , and Tabnine . One...
You can’t see, hear, taste, feel, or smell it, but software is everywhere around us. It underpins modern civilization even while consuming more energy, wealth, and time than it needs to and bur...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development-2667603125
Sensors, controllers, and other electronic devices embedded in clothing could change the way we interact with computers and with each other. But efforts to turn T-shirts into electronic devices h...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-textiles-chipless-batteryless
Qubits, the fundamental component of every quantum computer, are currently very error-prone pieces of technology. What’s called fault-tolerant quantum computing could need 1,000 or more of suc...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/microsoft-quantum-computer-quantinuum
A sensor generates an electrical signal that depends on the physical quantity we aim to measure. Achieving the desired performance is an iterative process that begins with finding suitable materi...
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Liquid circuits that mimic synapses in the brain can for the first time perform the kind of logical operations underlying modern computers, a new study finds. Near-term applications for these dev...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-computing-liquid-memristor
As transistors are made ever tinier to fit more computing power into a smaller footprint, they bump up against a big problem: quantum mechanics. Electrons get jumpy in small devices and leak out,...
In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a groundbreaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performa...
Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it’s time to add two such behemoths, Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL, to MLPerf’s in...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-benchmark-mlperf-llama-stablediffusion
Starting a new engineering program at a university is no simple task. But that’s just what Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., is doing. By 2026, the university will offer an undergraduate e...
SOFTWARE MAY BE eating the world , but it is also heating it. In December 2023, representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Dubai for COP28, the U.N.’s climate-change conference, ...
Although recent finding s have poured cold water on quantum computing hype, don’t count the technology out yet. On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who co...
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While the Top500 list ranks the 500 biggest high-performance computers (HPCs) in the world, its cousin the Green500 reranks the same 500 supercomputers according to their energy efficiency. Fo...
Newly developed intrinsically stretchable circuits are thousands of times as fast as and possess 20 times as many transistors as previous intrinsically stretchable electronics. The researchers at...
Today at Nvidia’s developer conference, GTC 2024 , the company revealed its next GPU, the B200 . The B200 is capable of delivering four times the training performance, up to 30 times the infer...
The Chinese consumer electronics company TCL Technology recently unveiled a monstrous, 163-inch 4K Micro-LED television that one home theater expert described as “tall as Darth Vader .” Each ...
AI supercomputer firm Cerebras says its next generation of waferscale AI chips can do double the performance of the previous generation while consuming the same amount of power. The Wafer Scale ...
As wireless systems become complex and reach for more spectrum, RF engineers must rely on high-fidelity simulation solutions to model and test their proposed new networks effectively. We offe...
To reduce global warming and the associated effects, the transportation and energy sectors are adopting measures to make different applications potentially fossil free. This has led to a surge in...
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Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering —finding a clever way to phrase their query to a large language model (LLM) o...
STEPHEN CASS: Hi. I’m Stephen Cass , a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. And welcome to Fixing The Future, our bi-weekly podcast that focuses on concrete solutions to hard problems. Before we sta...
A microchip that uses light instead of electricity can potentially be faster and more energy efficient at the complex computations essential to training AI than conventional electronics. In addit...
Diversity of thought in industrial design is crucial: If no one thinks to design a technology for multiple body types, people can get hurt. The invention of seat belts is an oft-cited example of ...