Processors

This Microcapacitor Charges 100 Million Times Faster Than Lithium-ion Batteries

May 15, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Tiny capacitors integrated onto chip surfaces could make computing more energy efficient, extend the life of implanted medical devices like pacemakers, and help power small robots. Thanks to a materials-science trick, engineers made capacitors that store 9 times as much energy and provide 170 times the power in a given…

25 Mar 24

Reach Your Space Goals With High-Bandwidth Devices

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This sponsored article is brought to you by Avnet and AMD.The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in image processing has brought about significant advancements in the exploration of space and our own Earth. In space applications, images are captured using various instruments, such as telescopes, satellites, and rovers. However, processing…

13 Mar 24

Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Sunnyvale, Calif., AI supercomputer firm Cerebras says its next generation of waferscale AI chips can do double the performance of the previous generation while consuming the same amount of power. The Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) contains 4 trillion transistors, a more than 50 percent increase over the previous generation…

03 Jan 24

Machine Learning Helps Fuzzing Find Hardware Bugs

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In the age of the global chip supply shortage, any speedup in chip manufacturing and QA testing is a potential lifeline. So a technique first developed to find instabilities in UNIX command-line prompts in the 1980s is now being retooled to automate chip tests on the assembly line—and discover bugs…

28 Mar 23

How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

One looming artifact of the pandemic that remains in 2023—the global chip shortage—has gratefully begun to recede. Unlike the state of things in mid-2021—when crimps in the semiconductor supply chain cropped up in big ways—supply and demand have become much less of a mismatch. As IEEE Spectrum reported in the…

21 Feb 23

AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

Computer & Information Technology

“Over the next decade, we must think of energy efficiency as the most important challenge,” Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, told engineers at the 2023 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), in San Francisco.Despite a slowdown of Moore’s Law, other factors have pushed mainstream computing capabilities to…

This Microcapacitor Charges 100 Million Times Faster Than Lithium-ion Batteries

Reach Your Space Goals With High-Bandwidth Devices

Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip

Machine Learning Helps Fuzzing Find Hardware Bugs

How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

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