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Stories tagged “semiconductors”

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One Coolant Drop Cools AI Chips by 17°C in 15 Seconds
Technology

One Coolant Drop Cools AI Chips by 17°C in 15 Seconds

University of Waterloo engineers built a hybrid cooling system that targets sudden hotspots on AI data-center chips with a single drop of boiling coolant, cutting costs without sacrificing speed.

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Rice-Sized Chip Delivers 20x Clearer Signal for 6G
Technology

Rice-Sized Chip Delivers 20x Clearer Signal for 6G

Northrop Grumman's new FORTITUDE chip crams the job of dozens of components onto one grain-of-rice-sized piece of gallium nitride, built to make satellites, GPS, and 6G more reliable.

3 min read
Monash Builds a Tiny Chip That Computes With Light, Not Electricity
Technology

Monash Builds a Tiny Chip That Computes With Light, Not Electricity

Australian researchers have packed multiple optical functions onto a single chip, opening a path to faster, lower-power computing — and quantum-inspired tech that runs at room temperature.

3 min read
Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw
Technology

Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw

A new Stanford optical amplifier the size of a fingertip can intensify light signals 100-fold on a few hundred milliwatts — small enough to run on a battery and fit inside a smartphone.

3 min read
New 25-Nanometer Memory Chip Gets More Efficient as It Shrinks
Technology

New 25-Nanometer Memory Chip Gets More Efficient as It Shrinks

Researchers at Science Tokyo built a hafnium-oxide memory device that overturns a 50-year-old assumption — one that has constrained chip design for decades.

3 min read