Intel and Microsoft yesterday announced that they will provide $20 million over five years to two groups of university researchers that will work to design a new generation of computing systems. The goal is to prevent the industry from coming to a dead end that would halt decades of performance increases in computers. The researchers’ [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Industry Giants Try to Break Computing’s Dead End
March 25, 2008MIT Names Its Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2008
March 15, 2008Graphene sheets are not entirely flat, © A Geim, U. Manchester
Graphene transistors will be one of the top emerging technologies of 2008, according to researchers at MIT. Microchips built with graphene have the potential to work faster than silicon-based circuits, produce less heat, and conduct it away more rapidly. The MIT researchers are high on [...]
