Parallel programming made easy Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the past 10 years, chips’ performance improvements have come from the addition of processing units known as cor... Read more
A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The en... Read more
Researchers use graphene to create a new way of converting electricity into light, delivering the possibility of dramatic speed improvements over today’s chips. US Army-funded research... Read more
A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Sandia National Laboratories and Harvard University were able to fabri... Read more
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have reported a breakthrough in chip design that integrates electronic and photonic components and could lead to smaller, lighter... Read more
It is time for computer designers to work smart instead of strong, which is just what Devadas is doing. Computer scientists at MIT have developed a 110-core CPU chip based on a new architect... Read more
