The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of which can overheat under stress, causing steep drops in performance. To ...

Computing is often celebrated for its precision and speed. But researchers and hyperscale data center operators are warning of a growing threat that challenges one of computing’s core promises: ...

To improve chatbot performance, Nvidia plans to sell a new kind of processor, an LPU, optimized to run large language models (LLMs). The “Nvidia Groq 3 LPU” chip was among seven upcoming chips Nvidia ...

Modern high-performance chips are marvels of engineering, containing tens of billions of transistors. The problem is, you can’t use them all at once. If you did, you would create hot spots—high ...

Apple Silicon 2026represents the next evolution of custom Apple chips, combining CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, and I/O controllers into a single, highly optimized die. These designs, tailored specifically ...

A powerful light source bigger than a London double-decker bus has set a record: it can create structures on a silicon wafer that are just 8 nanometres (nm) wide. Those are thought to be the smallest ...