Artificial intelligence

Japanese Companies Develop Thin-film 3D Analog ICs

March 5, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Despite the relentless advance of digital technology into every area of business, industry, and leisure activities, analog integrated circuits (ICs) are holding their own in the global semiconductor market. This year, revenues are forecast to reach US $85 billion—equating to an annual compound growth rate of 10 percent. Driving this…

February 28, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYGerman Robotics Conference: 13–15…

February 13, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

Efforts to build brain-inspired computer hardware have been underway for decades, but the field has yet to have its breakout moment. Now, leading researchers say the time is ripe to start building the first large-scale neuromorphic devices that can solve practical problems.The neural networks that have powered recent progress in…

February 10, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

A new deep-learning model can now predict how proteins sort themselves inside the cell. The model has uncovered a hidden layer of molecular code that shapes biological organization, adding new dimensions of complexity to our understanding of life and offering a powerful biotechnology tool for drug design and discovery.Previous AI…

February 3, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

AI is changing everything in data centers: New AI-specific chips, new cooling techniques, and new storage drives. Now even the method for keeping time is starting to change, with an announcement from SiTime that the company has developed a new clock that is optimized for AI workloads.The company says the…

January 30, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and…

January 28, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

AI coding assistants are quickly becoming indispensable tools for developers. But the provenance of the code they’re trained on is often murky, leading to concerns around transparency and author rights. A new initiative launched yesterday by the nonprofit Software Heritage hopes to change this by providing the world’s largest repository…

January 22, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Fiber-optic cables are creeping closer to processors in high-performance computers, replacing copper connections with glass. Technology companies hope to speed up AI and lower its energy cost by moving optical connections from outside the server onto the motherboard and then having them sidle up alongside the processor. Now tech firms…

January 22, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

At the SC24 supercomputing conference held in November in Atlanta, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (the actor who played the Mountain in “Game of Thrones”), dead-lifted a custom barbell weighed down by 453 kilograms (1,000 pounds) of solid-state drives (SSDs). The data stored in those drives totaled just over 280 petabytes.“Without question,…

21 Jan 25

Europe accelerates AI drug discovery as DeepMind spinoff targets trials this year

Computer & Information Technology

Google DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs expects testing on its first AI-designed drugs to begin this year, as tech startups race to turn algorithmic magic into actual treatments. “We’ll hopefully have some AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of the year,” the firm’s Nobel Prize-winning CEO Demis Hassabis told…

Japanese Companies Develop Thin-film 3D Analog ICs

Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains

Brain-inspired Computing Is Ready for the Big Time

AI Reveals Hidden Interior Design Rules of the Cell

Better AI Is a Matter of Timing

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

Initiative Aims to Enable Ethical Coding LLMs

Optical Interposers Could Start Speeding Up AI in 2025

AI Workloads Spur Bigger Memory Drives

Europe accelerates AI drug discovery as DeepMind spinoff targets trials this year

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law