(Nanowerk News) After years of tackling numerous design and manufacturing challenges, MIT researchers have built a modern microprocessor from carbon nanotube transistors, which are widely seen as a ...

DURHAM – Computer engineers at Duke University have developed a new AI method for accurately predicting the power consumption of any type of computer processor more than a trillion times per second ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microprocessor engineers agree multi-core designs will be the wave of the future, but they differ widely on how to implement them and surmount the many challenges they pose. That ...

Getting rid of heat is one of the main problems that microprocessor designers face. Building a fast and powerful processor often comes with a slew of thermal transport problems that are both difficult ...

Compaq Computer Corp. took its first major step Monday to streamline its business by announcing a plan to sell to Intel Corp. most of the assets behind its most powerful computer, the Alpha ...

The big picture: Intel forever changed the trajectory of computing - and really, human history - with the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor. The Intel 4004 launched 50 ...

Computer engineers have developed a new AI method for accurately predicting the power consumption of any type of computer processor more than a trillion times per second while barely using any ...

Unless you worked in the most secretive corners of the computer industry in the late 1960s, the name Gilbert Hyatt probably won’t mean much to you. But Hyatt wants you to know his name as inventor of ...

Information theory and the second law of thermodynamics dictate that a logical operation in a computer must consume a minimum amount of energy. Today's computers consume a million times more energy ...

New approach harnesses the same fabrication processes used for silicon chips, offers key advance toward next-generation computers. September 12, 2019-- After years of tackling numerous design and ...