“Provides enormous cost-benefits and advantage over traditional photonic systems” A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics by researchers at the University of Colorado... Read more
A French team makes headway in making miniature electronics. Engineers have been shrinking electronic components further and further at a steady rate for the past hundred years—a phenomenon... Read more
Starting to attract the attention of investors and entrepreneurs By embracing new Web and mobile technologies, green energy companies are creating a new Cleanweb movement in which for... Read more
New finding could help circuits keep shrinking In 1959 physicist Richard Feynman issued a famed address at a meeting of the American Physical Society, a talk entitled “There... Read more
The energy efficiency of computing is doubling every 18 months IN 1965 Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, first observed that integrated circuits, better known as silicon chips, seemed to... Read more
Tiny Chips Use Outsize Power For decades, the power of computers has grown at a staggering rate as designers have managed to squeeze ever more and ever tinier transistors onto a silicon chip... Read more