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 kn... 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 Engineeri... 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-funde... 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 abl... 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 includ... Read more
