Issues: Computing
Resources to help you understand the latest developments in computing, the changes they will work across the economy, and their potential benefits to humanity.
- Time to turn Amazon Sidewalk off? [web page]
- The quantum computer with a time crystal? For real... not in Doctor Who's TARDIS. [web page]
- China claims a quantum computer speed win in new paper. [web page]
- The quantum internet becomes more possible with new developments. [web page]
- A photonic quantum device completed a task in microseconds that would have taken a conventional computer 9,000 years to complete. [web page]
- A firm called Quantum Brilliance is working to take quantum computing out of the lab and put it in offices and homes, instead. [web page]
- Speech technology firm Nuance falls to Microsoft buyout. [web page]
- Xanadu has hit 200 qubits, and while a supercomputer would need 9,000 years to simulate the behaviour of just one of these operations, its optical quantum computer can do it in just a few dozen milliseconds. [web page]
- A novel artificial synapse design that mirrors the brain's dependence on moving ions around might vastly surpass biological ones, according to MIT researchers. [web page]
- Cerebras shows off its trillion-transistor chip. [web page]
- Light-based Quantum computers might illuminate the way. [web page]
- A graphene transistor gate the size of an Atom has just been created by Chinese scientists. [web page]
- Going graphene to keep on pushing Moore's Law to its limits. [web page]
- IBM thinks small for next generation of chips. [web page]
- Photonic chips light the way to faster computer speeds. [web page]
- New state of matter promises quantum computer storage system boost. [web page]
- Because CIM chips are so efficient, advanced AI could soon be available on your phone. [web page]
- IBM's Qiskit program execution environment, a blend of classical and quantum computing, provides a 100 times speed boost to tasks. [web page]
- Computers with human-like brains get closer with new tech for cellular memories. [web page]
- Computing at the quantum level has a large problem with hype. [web page]
- This innovative data transmission technique brings 8K information closer while still being compatible with fibre optic cable technologies. [web page]
- Apart from linking transistor chips, firms that use silicon photonics to develop quantum computers, supercomputers, and chips for self-driving cars are also generating a lot of money. [web page]
- The world is creating more data than we can store, but the DNA molecule, which stores our genetic code, may provide a solution. [web page]
- Loihi neuromorphic chip is the new semiconductor big hitter from Intel. [web page]
- Microsoft is working on in-house processor designs. [web page]
- A new form of switch for optical computing is looking hopeful for keeping Moore's Law flying far beyond the silicon cliff-edge. [web page]
- A Biocomputer made of E. Coli solves a maze by collaborating. [web page]
- QuEra has developed a 256-qubit quantum computer, which is a world record. Not as good as me, but then, I'm special. [web page]
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory now has the world's most powerful supercomputer. [web page]
- CPUs go plastic and ultra-cheap with new design breakthrough. [web page]
- Scientists have just achieved one-way superconductivity, which had been thought to be impossible for more than a century. [web page]
- A guide to the Metaverse for those hard-of-tech types. [web page]
- Honeywell places its flag in the quantum computing race. [web page]
- Quantum computing on track to accelerate, says IBM [web page]
- Lightwave electronics might keep the exponential surge in processor speeds continuing when Moore's Law slows. [web page]
- How far has quantum computing really progressed? [web page]
- How quantum computers will fix their mistakes in practice. [web page]
- The discovery of triple entanglement in silicon is a significant quantum computing development. [web page]
- Farm robots with lasers? Sounds like a great idea to me. [web page]
- ASML, a Dutch company, spent $9 billion and 17 years figuring out how to keep manufacturing denser and denser computer chips. [web page]
- Topological axion insulators should develop the quantum computing field quite nicely. [web page]
- Deep reinforcement systems and quantum computing are a match made in heaven. [web page]
- Working quantum architecture requires a glass chip. [web page]
- Has the world's quantum computing error correction problem now been solved by Google? [web page]
- Server CPUs a new semiconductor market for Nvidia - Intel, watch out. [web page]
- A new data storage disc developed that can hold 500TB of data for a billion years. It looks a little like the spinning disc in the HG Wells book/film, The Time Machine, to me. [web page]
- Google steps up its quantum computing schemes. [web page]
- Without the use of a clock, sensor, or substantial memory modules, researchers have created a photonic deep neural network that can evaluate pictures directly. [web page]
- Satellite-based laser tech could make for the fastest Net connectivity. [web page]
- Quantum computing meets fiber optics and magic happens. [web page]
- The discovery, conducted by UNSW Sydney, lays the door for huge silicon-based quantum computers to be manufactured and used in the real world. [web page]
- There's now 2.6 trillion transistors on an AI chip. [web page]
- Researchers at MIT have been able to lower the size of qubits while also reducing the amount of interference that occurs between adjacent qubits. [web page]
- Recent advances in the capacity to operate and programme neutral atom quantum computers indicate that they may be reaching go-live. [web page]
- A whole new kind of qubit is being developed by Microsoft, which has announced progress on the project. [web page]
- It's no longer simply about the size of your chip when it comes to quantum computing, but with the debut of a 127-qubit processor, IBM has made a significant step forward. [web page]
- The 'difficult' task of challenging Google's 'quantum supremacy' is taken on by a Chinese team using traditional computing. [web page]
- Researchers create a groundbreaking silicon-based quantum simulator that is the first to imitate the structure of a carbon-based system. [web page]
- Will Apple change everything we know about augmented reality with its new headset system? [web page]
- Quantum information tech gets a boost from bilayer graphene quantum dots. [web page]
- The Quantum Internet moves closer with new developments. [web page]
- Keeping quantum computers small might be the secret to making them work. [web page]
- A "quantum memristor" has been produced by researchers that might be used to build quantum neural networks. [web page]
- Computers writing computer code? Nice trick. [web page]
- Nanotubes might cook up a new level of semiconductor chips. [web page]
- What if quantum computing held a revolution and decent engineering failed to show up? [web page]
- Quantum computers are on the verge of tackling more complex issues for companies such as BMW, LG, and others. [web page]
- Working quantum computers get an odd boost from time crystals - and Doctor Who wasn't involved. [web page]
- Gate-model quantum computers are the future of D-Wave - and possibly our future, too. [web page]
- In the future, quantum computers may crunch data using single electrons on neon ice, which would be called the "ideal qubit." [web page]
- Microsoft Mesh technology wants to make 'holograms' mainstream. [web page]
- To store humanity's limitless digital data, DNA is given an artificial upgrade. [web page]
- Large 580TB Magnetic Tapes developed. [web page]
- According to the latest version of IBM's quantum-computing roadmap, the corporation is on track to construct a 4,000-qubit computer by 2025. [web page]
- Blockchain isn't the first technology that leaps to people's minds when thinking about saving the planet - but they're wrong! [web page]
- The Shanghai University of Science and Technology utilised a quantum computer to create a new kind of qubit that surpassed their prior design considerably. [web page]
- The newest iteration of Tesla's Dojo supercomputer was just revealed, and reports indicate that it is so powerful that it caused power outages. [web page]
- Quantum computers to advance via esoteric topological materials? [web page]
- There's a new player in town making ARM chips for the laptop market, Nuvia. [web page]
- Why, outside of computers, there's been a global innovation famine. [video]
- Cerebras Systems hopes to build the world's fastest A.I. processor. [web page]
- Meet the first operating system for quantum computers. [web page]
- Intel's new Ponte Vecchio chip looks to pack in a 100 billion transistors. I could use me some of that processing power! [web page]
- Augmented reality products are still struggling to change the landscape. [web page]
- Semiconductor, meet Superconductor, with interesting results for the future of computing. [web page]
- A two-inch diamond disc might hold more data than a billion Blu-Ray discs. [web page]
- New data transfer bottleneck tech will help supercomputer operations. [web page]
