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
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent A typical computer chip includes million... Read more
