Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC
New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery
Intel Versus the Dwindling PC Market
Questions about the company's mobile push and its business model again take center stage
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Would the Mob Really Break Your Virtual Kneecaps With Counterfeit Chips?
Apparently, the next chip security threat could come from organized crime, says IOActive
Nanoscale Chip Design Enables Future 'Internet of Things'
New chip design on the nano scale reduces energy consumption on chips and work off photovoltaics so batteries last forever
Who Can Hold 2 Billion Transistors in His Head at Once?
It’s impossible to do engineering anymore without using mostly other people’s knowledge
DNA Nanotechnology Takes Two Big Steps Forward in Manufacturing
Researchers get proof that DNA assembled 3D objects are atomically precise and shorten the assembly from weeks to minutes
How Far Can IT Take Material Science?
The White House's year-old "Materials Genome Initiative" comes under scrutiny
Higgs Boson Unmasked by World's Biggest Test Instruments
Two papers in Physics Letters B formally introduce a candidate for the Higgs boson. Two of the biggest, most expensive, and most precise detectors ever built made the discovery possible.
Wireless Power Beamed Straight to Your Heart
A tiny, implantable cardiac device is powered by radio waves
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet
Can Chips Keep Their Cool?
Increasing speed but not power consumption is just one challenge for the next eight years
Technology Time Machine 2012: Beyond CMOS
Nanotube, nanowires, graphene, memristors, or maybe just more CMOS
Sun Catalytix Won't be Raking It in with Artificial Leaf
Producing hydrogen from artificial photosynthesis turns out to be too expensive
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New Wafers For 3-D Transistors
The silicon-on-insulator wafer maker Soitec hopes to help chipmakers catch up to Intel
The Financial Risks of Counterfeit Semiconductors
Reports of counterfeit parts have tripled in the last two years.
An Exascale Challenge for Radio Astronomy
Building the next generation radio telescope will require addressing a new set of computing challenges
The Intel-ARM Core War
Competition between Intel and ARM chips in everything from PCs to mobile phones is heating up
Largest Quantum Computer Calculation to Date—But Is It Too Little Too Late?
D-Wave continues to push the capabilities of its quantum computer, but are the company's capital reserves dwindling?
3-D Chips Grow Up
In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law—and move beyond it
Spring-loaded Pixels to Drive Holographic Displays
Semiconductor research firm Imec hopes to create holographic video displays using MEMS
An Amplifier That’s Quantum Quiet
An exotic new amplifier might be quiet enough for quantum computing
Intel Interview: Getting Beyond "Darn Good" Devices
Intel's Mark Bohr describes how the company decided to make the switch to 3-D transistors
Quasicrystals Earn Israeli Materials Scientist a Chemistry Nobel
Non-repeating crystals, once thought impossible, can boost thermoelectric conversion and brighten LEDs
DemoFall 2011: A "Google Docs" for Circuit Design
Hardware designers, welcome to the cloud
Obehi Ibhanesebhor: Digital Diva
Chip-failure analyst by day, chanteuse by night
Armored Spacecraft Sets Course for Jupiter
Ensuring that NASA's Juno spacecraft could withstand Jupiter's harsh radiation environment came with a few challenges
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Stealth Start-up Takes Aim at Transistor Power
SuVolta's new transistor design halves power consumption, but details on the scheme are still hazy
The Origins of Intel's New Transistor, and Its Future
A Q&A with Chenming Hu, coinventor of both the FinFET and its likely competitor
Intel Transistors Enter the Third Dimension
The chip maker's next-generation microprocessors will use multigate transistors to tackle the energy leakage problems that come with tiny features
Taiwan R&D Group Pushes Packaging to Speed Development
MorPACK could make prototyping complex multichip systems faster