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The World's Smallest Robot
tech1205smRobot_485.jpg Dartmouth College researchers have created a robot so small that 200 of them could fit on the tip of your finger. The tiny machine crawls like an inchworm across a grid at the...
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Chips Can't Get Much Smaller
Chips The days of exponentially-shrinking chips are numbered. jpockele About every two years, transistors shrink in size enough to place double the number on an integrated circuit than was possible...
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Move Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips
Bismuth Telluride A diagram of how electrons act like photons on the surface of the new form of bismuth telluride courtesy of Yulin Chen Bismuth Telluride Valley doesn't quite have the same ring to...
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First Nanotube Circuit Created, Paves Way For Better Chips
A computer chip using nanotube circuitry can run much faster than a regular silicon chip, for a fraction of the cost, but no one has been able to effectively string together two nanotube transistors,...
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Hewlett-Packard Unveils Real-World Memristor, Chip of the Future
17 Oxygen-depleted Titanium Dioxide Memristors Hewlett Packard, via Wikimedia CommonsIn 1971, electrical engineering professor Leon Chua proposed a theoretical basic electronics component called a...
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Should I Overclock my Computer?
Overclocking thereddress.co.ukOverclocking is simply improving your computer's performance beyond its rated specifications by tweaking its settings. An example would be overclocking a $280...
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Diagnosis of STDs Could Be As Quick As Peeing On A Chip And Putting It In...
Computer Chip, Will Your Talents Ever Stop Emerging? Wikimedia Commons Peeing on your phone seems like an all-around pretty bad idea, but British researchers have managed to find an upside. They claim...
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Video: Tiny Buzzing Quadcopter Is Basically Just a Flying Computer Chip
CrazyFlie Daedalus Project This cute hand-built quadcopter might not be able to play tennis, but it's not CrazyFlie's fault — it's much to small to bounce anything around. The copter is basically a...
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Two Key Advances Bring Quantum Computers Closer to Reality Than Ever
Chip for Quantum Computing The two black squares are the qubits, or processor; the center meandering line is the quantum bus; and the lateral meandering lines are the quantum memory. Erik Lucero...
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Intel Sandy Bridge
Intel Sandy Bridge Intel Most processor upgrades are incremental, touting small speed boosts and slight bumps to a computer's battery life. The new generation of Intel chips takes a more substantial...
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Neuronal Computer Chips Communicate Like Brain Cells
Neuronal Chip This image shows a fabricated analog very-large-scale integration (VLSI) chip used to mimic neuronal processes involved in memory and learning. Guy Rachmuth/via MIT Brain-like computers...
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Intel 4th-Generation Core Processors (Haswell)
Intel 4th-Generation Core Processors (Haswell) Intel The Haswell is the most efficient and powerful computer chip in the world: It gives laptops the performance of a PC with the battery life of a...
View ArticleChips Can't Get Much Smaller
About every two years, transistors shrink in size enough to place double the number on an integrated circuit than was possible during the previous two years. Its held true…
View ArticleMove Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips
Bismuth Telluride Valley doesn't quite have the same ring to it, but a new discovery may mean the end of silicon chips. After decades of using Bi2Te3 for its thermoelectric…
View ArticleFirst Nanotube Circuit Created, Paves Way For Better Chips
A computer chip using nanotube circuitry can run much faster than a regular silicon chip, for a fraction of the cost, but no one has been able to effectively string together…
View ArticleHewlett-Packard Unveils Real-World Memristor, Chip of the Future
In 1971, electrical engineering professor Leon Chua proposed a theoretical basic electronics component called a memristor. In 2008, Hewlett Packard brought the memristor out…
View ArticleShould I Overclock my Computer?
Overclocking is simply improving your computerâs performance beyond its rated specifications by tweaking its settings. An example would be overclocking a $280…
View ArticleDiagnosis of STDs Could Be As Quick As Peeing On A Chip And Putting It In...
Peeing on your phone seems like an all-around pretty bad idea, but British researchers have managed to find an upside. They claim that by urinating on a computer chip and…
View ArticleVideo: Tiny Buzzing Quadcopter Is Basically Just a Flying Computer Chip
This cute hand-built quadcopter might not be able to play tennis, but it's not CrazyFlie's fault â it's much to small to bounce anything around. The copter is basically a …
View ArticleTwo Key Advances Bring Quantum Computers Closer to Reality Than Ever
Researchers on two continents are reporting two big breakthroughs in quantum computing today â a quantum system built on the familiar von Neumann processor-memory architecture, and a working digital...
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