The microchip era may be ending – and wafer-scale systems could be what comes next

Nowhere is this transformation more visible than at Nvidia, whose valuation recently soared to about $5 trillion, making it ...
Forbes

Intel's Next CPUs Have 100 Million Transistors Per Square Millimeter: A Generation Ahead Of AMD?

This year sees more competition in the CPU marketplace than at any other time in the last decade. Since 2006, when Intel released its Core architecture, the company has been the default choice for PC ...
NextBigFuture

Princeton shrinks tabletop terahertz equipment down to a few square millimeters

Terahertz electromagnetic pulses lasting one millionth of a millionth of a second may hold the key to advances in medical imaging, communications and drug development. But the pulses, called terahertz ...
The Register on MSN

Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm

How many 1080p screens can you fit on a pinhead? These German physicists reckon about one Micro-OLED displays with 1080p ...
NextBigFuture

Future Wafer Scale Chips Could Have 100 Trillion Transistors

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI ...
Hackaday

The Nintendo Switch CPU Exposed

Ever wonder what’s inside a Nintendo Switch? Well, the chip is an Nvidia Tegra X1. However, if you peel back a layer, there are four ARM CPU cores inside — specifically Cortex A57 cores, which take up ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

World's Tiniest Pixel Shatters Records… But There's a Catch

Get ready for a new era of miniature displays. Scientists have developed the tiniest pixel ever made – just 300 × 300 nanometers – and it's bright enough to rival today's standard pixels. The work of ...