China's Tianhe-2 Caps Top 10 Supercomputers
China's Tianhe-2 outflanks U.S. systems to take No. 1 spot in Top500 list
Intel Takes Aim at "Cool Technology"
The chip giant has a new CEO and a brand new structure
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Intel Versus the Dwindling PC Market
Questions about the company's mobile push and its business model again take center stage
Better Eyes for Flying Robots
New systems could improve the vision of micro aerial vehicles
Encryption Chip Fights Off Sneak Attacks
Processor obscures characteristics that enable side-channel attacks in cloud computing
Intel Inside…Your Smartphone
With Silvermont, the chip giant may finally get a grip on the mobile market
The Incredible Shrinking Chip Industry
The field has narrowed considerably, especially when it comes to making advanced chips, GlobalFoundries CEO says
The Human Face Within Big Data
A new book sees big data as mostly good, a little scary, and full of people
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Who's the Fastest of Them All?
With Oak Ridge’s 20 petaflop ‘Titan’ grabbing the supercomputing title, Top500.org re-ranks the field
Wi-Fi Radio Takes a Digital Turn
Intel's new transceiver pushes RF circuitry further into the digital realm, but will it make it out of the lab?
More Support Emerges for Low-Power Server Chips
Texas-based start-up Calxeda has won an extra $55 million in funding for ARM-based server chips
IBM Unveils Its Latest Big Iron
Big Blue's latest chip clocks in at a searing 5.5 GHz
Wright's Law Edges Out Moore's Law in Predicting Technology Development
Economies of scale trump time as a factor in driving down costs, shows study of 62 different technologies
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A Gigapixel Camera Composed of Dozens of Microcameras
Duke engineers showcase a prototype gigapixel camera
IBM’s Sequoia Crowned King of Supercomputers
With more than 16 petaflops it soundly beats previous champion
Mix of Metal and Graphene Cools Chips
Flakes of graphene in copper or indium could let chips run faster
Fukushima, One Year After
On the somber first anniversary, Japan still has a lot of work ahead
Why I'm Wagering $100,000 on Quantum Computing
If quantum computing really does turn out to be impossible for some fundamental reason, I'll be absolutely thrilled.
The Intel-ARM Core War
Competition between Intel and ARM chips in everything from PCs to mobile phones is heating up
3-D Chips Grow Up
In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law—and move beyond it
Is There a Moore’s Law for Energy Efficiency?
The energy needed to perform computations is falling exponentially, a trend that predates the transistor
Transceivers to Conquer the Terahertz Frontier
New ICs harness the untamed terahertz band
Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator
The random-number generator uses digital circuits to stump the smartest hackers
How Japanese Chipmaker Renesas Recovered From the Earthquake
It took just three months to put the microcontroller manufacturer's hard-hit Naka facility back in operation
A First for Quantum Computing?
Canadian company D-Wave has sold its first quantum computer, but doubts remain about exactly how quantum it really is
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
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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
Beehackers
Beekeeping engineers bring cheap widgets to a 19th-century craft
Transistor Aging
Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power