The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large "semiconductor fabrication plants" or "foundries." New research by KU Leuven and imec shows that...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-potential-thin-electronics-flexible-chip.html
Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, using nothing more than a smartphone. However, these apps can be slow and energy-inefficient be...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tiny-chip-safeguard-user-enabling.html
Researchers at Tohoku University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have unveiled a probabilistic computer prototype. Manufacturable with a near-future technology, the prototype com...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-energy-efficient-probabilistic-combining-cmos.html
A combined team of engineers from Tsinghua University and the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, both in China, has developed a large-scale diffractive hybri...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-taichi-large-scale-diffractive-hybrid.html
Research groups from NIMS, Seagate Technology, and Tohoku University have made a breakthrough in the field of hard disk drives (HDD) by demonstrating the feasibility of multi-level recording usin...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-proof-principle-3d-magnetic-hard.html
A team of Korean researchers has developed a new memory device that can be used to replace existing memory or be used in implementing neuromorphic computing for next-generation artificial intelli...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ultra-lowpower-memory-neuromorphic.html
Mass spectrometry, a technique that can precisely identify the chemical components of a sample, could be used to monitor the health of people who suffer from chronic illnesses. For instance, a ma...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-key-components-mass-spectrometer.html
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are an emerging class of transistors based on organic superconducting materials known for their ability to modulate electrical current in response to s...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-strategy-fabricating-high-density-vertical.html
Annealing processors are designed specifically for addressing combinatorial optimization problems, where the task is to find the best solution from a finite set of possibilities. This holds impli...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-semiconductors-scale-processor-remarkable-speedup.html
Computers work in digits—0s and 1s, to be exact. Their calculations are digital; their processes are digital; even their memories are digital. All of which require extraordinary power resources...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-staying-loop-superconductors.html
While most computing in the world is still digital, the data around us is captured in analog via sensors–images through cameras, temperature, and sound, for example, and has to be converted int...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-analog-chip-architecture-high-precision.html
Even the most complicated data processing on a computer can be broken down into small, simple logical steps: You can add individual bits together, you can reverse logical states, you can use comb...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-reconfigurable-electronics-functionality-chip-area.html
Johns Hopkins electrical and computer engineers are pioneering a new approach to creating neural network chips—neuromorphic accelerators that could power energy-efficient, real-time machine int...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-collaborate-chatgpt4-brain-chips.html
Taking flight can be stressful—especially for a lithium-ion battery that powers a drone. Too much strain on these cells causes damage and shortens a device's overall lifespan. Research in ACS E...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-lithium-ion-batteries-drones-stressful.html
Imagine being able to build an entire dialysis machine using nothing more than a 3D printer.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-3d-electromagnets-heart-electronics.html
Imagine doubling the processing power of your smartphone, tablet, personal computer, or server using the existing hardware already in these devices.
The continuous improvement of circuits and electronic components is vital for the development of new technologies with enhanced capabilities and unique characteristics. In recent years, most elec...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-architecture-picowatt-logic-based-biased.html
Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated sensors, which can help to advance the sensing capabilities of robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and ot...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-multi-camera-differential-binocular-vision.html
In the future, modern machines should not only follow algorithms quickly and precisely, but also function intelligently—in other words, in a way that resembles the human brain. Scientists from ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-international-team-hardware-neuromorphic.html
Look up "lifelong learning" online, and you'll find a laundry list of apps to teach you how to quilt, play chess or even speak a new language. Within the emerging fields of artificial intelligenc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-lifelong-power-generation-autonomous-devices.html
With the emergence of new industries such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and machine learning, the world's leading companies are focusing on developing next-generation artifi...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-artificial-neural-network-hardware-stacking.html
A team of international scientists have developed an ultra-high speed signal processor that can analyze 400,000 real time video images concurrently, according to a paper published in Communicatio...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-ultra-high-processor-advance-ai-driverless.html
A research team led by Prof. Sun Zhong at Peking University has reported an analog hardware solution for real-time compressed sensing recovery. It has been published as an article titled, "In-mem...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-team-analog-hardware-solution-real-time.html
Researchers at Tohoku University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have shown a proof-of-concept of energy-efficient computer compatible with current AI. It utilizes a stochastic b...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-spintronic-probabilistic-compatible-current-ai.html
By strategically straining materials that are as thin as a single layer of atoms, University of Rochester scientists have developed a new form of computing memory that is at once fast, dense, and...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-hybrid-phase-change-memristors-possibilities.html
Multifunctional computer chips have evolved to do more with integrated sensors, processors, memory and other specialized components. However, as chips have expanded, the time required to move inf...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-2d-material-reshape-3d-electronics.html
Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius, but he was also a hot mess—at least in terms of organizing his works. When he died in 1519, the Renaissance master left behind 7,000 pages of undated d...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-da-vinci-chronology-renaissance-genius.html
Technology is edging closer and closer to the super-speed world of computing with artificial intelligence. But is the world equipped with the proper hardware to be able to handle the workload of ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-neuromorphic-team-hardware-mimics-human.html
Researchers at the City University of Hong Kong found the secret to a more efficient, less expensive approach to keeping massive computer systems cool: Just add salt.
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-salt-solution-cools-boosts.html
Researchers from Tsinghua University, China, have developed an all-analog photoelectronic chip that combines optical and electronic computing to achieve ultrafast and highly energy-efficient comp...
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-future-ai-hardware-scientists-unveil.html