Posts Tagged «computers»
New 2D super-material could beat graphene to becoming the new silicon July 14, 2015 at 9:39 am
A brand new 2D material combines graphene-like conductivity with silicon-like bandgap, which could have applications from computing to solar power.
Stanford has created a water-droplet computer June 12, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Stanford wants to herald the age of physical computing — but not to out-perform electronics.
IBM betting carbon nanotubes can restore Moore’s Law by 2020 July 5, 2014 at 9:31 am
IBM has announced a plan to bring processors based on carbon nanotubes, rather than silicon transistors, to the consumer market by 2020.
Orbital computing: An amazing atomic-level tech for future computers March 11, 2014 at 2:01 pm
New discoveries at Standford’s linear accelerator have suggested it may be possible to read and write data thousands of times faster than current technology. We have heard claims like this before, but none perhaps so enticing as this new concept for an “orbital computer.”
Brave transhumanist pioneer self-implants a computer into his arm November 1, 2013 at 2:18 pm
With a retail Google Glass on the horizon, and the modern man and woman being glued to their smartphones 24 hours a day, the world is moving ever closer toward literally being attached to their mobile devices. In the German town of Essen, biohacker Tim Cannon implanted a small computer and battery inside his arm — without the help of a doctor or even anesthesia.
Scientists use DNA to shape graphene into the transistor of the future September 9, 2013 at 4:18 pm
This week, Standford University scientists published a piece in Nature detailing a new way to produce graphene ribbons, and from them working graphene transistors.
Wax cooling can massively speed up processors for short bursts August 23, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Researchers at the University of Michigan have turned to wax to help push microprocessors to the limit. The wax can efficiently absorb heat as it changes phase and begins to melt. In recent tests, they boosted an Intel Core i7 microprocessor — which normally runs at around 10 watts — up to 50 watts.
Memristor biocomputers could be made using slime molds June 19, 2013 at 9:00 am
Memristors can take on various physical incarnations: titanium dioxide, polymeric, and ferroelectric memristors have all recently been developed. Researchers from the University of the West of England in Bristol have now created, or rather discovered, memristors in the living form of Physarum polycephalum, otherwise known as the slime mold.
Smart dust: A complete computer that’s smaller than a grain of sand May 15, 2013 at 11:58 am
Called the Michigan Micro Mote, or M3, this tiny computer features processing, data storage, and wireless communication. Researcher Pabral Dutta thinks it will be the next revolution in computing.
Researchers create transistors out of nanowire forests, for ‘ultimate scaling’ beyond 10nm May 1, 2013 at 2:00 pm
As transistor size decreases, the limits of planar technologies have been partially alleviated by stepping into the third dimension. Researchers in France have come up with a 3D transistor design based on silicon nanowires that promises to extend lithographic techniques down to ever smaller scales.