Dev creates Minecraft in Minecraft that runs Minecraft in parallel worlds conundrum
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What happens when virtual computers running “Metaverse worlds” can be used to run virtual computers running Metaverse worlds ad infinitum? This is the ultimate parallel universe dilemma … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Synthetic diamonds could help extend the Moore’s Law Era
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Moore’s Law is slowing, because of both commercial and technical reasons, but diamonds are a semi-conductor company’s best friends … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Samsung beats TSMC to be the first company to produce 3nm computer chips
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This optical brain like computer chip analyses almost 2 billion images per second
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future machine vision will capture even more videos and images than it does today, and synthetic content will create even more, and we need computer chips that can process this insane volume of graphical data. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
A new breakthrough computer chip encodes data using sound
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Impossible is just something we haven’t done yet, and now we’ve achieved another “impossible” breakthrough … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
TSMC and Graphcore partnership accelerates AI training by over 40 percent
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IBM’s 127 Qubit Eagle quantum computer is the biggest yet
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers are billions of times faster than traditional logic computers at performing certain calculations, and this is the biggest quantum computer yet. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Intels second generation neuromorphic chip is a literal brain in your pocket
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Neuromorphic computing promises to put the power of a human brain in your pocket – literally. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Computer chips that...
Researchers networked animal brains together to create an organic computer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People have always said the brain is like a giant computer, and now we can network them together just like computers. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Imagine a future where computers...
TSMC announces new 2nm chip plans as Intel struggles with 7nm
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Smaller transistors mean more powerful computer chips and as giants like Intel struggle others are speeding ahead. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As transistor sizes get increasingly smaller, with 7nm transistor...
Arm’s flexible plastic computer chip gets ready to revolutionise the Internet of Things
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future computer chips won’t be made of silicon … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. If you read my blog regularly then you’ll have read about the future of computing...
A Google AI just designed a computer chip as well as a human engineer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI has come full circle – designing new types of AI computer chips that accelerate the development of new AI’s … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. AI has finally come full...
A tiny self-erasing computer chip could improve your company’s security
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If it’s connected it’s vulnerable to attack, and in the future everything is connected so we need new security technologies … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When I used to work...
Supercomputer beating chip the size of a dinner plate now has 2.6 Trillion transistors
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This computer chip bucks the trend of producing smaller chips, and it’s been thrashing supercomputers. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the world of computers chips are supposed to get smaller...
IBM pushes the boundaries and unveils the world’s first 2nm computer chip
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Moore’s Law is still grinding out gains, but they’re getting harder and more expensive to realise. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A year or so after Chinese researchers unveiled the world’s...
500 hackers spent three months trying to hack a radical new computer chip and failed
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cyber attacks will only get bigger and bolder and today’s technologies can’t stop them. The MORPHEUS computer chip is a radical new solution that so far hasn’t been hacked. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
A trillion transistor computer chip just left a supercomputer in the dust
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Computer chips have been getting smaller and more powerful for decades – but what if they got bigger instead? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Just in general the history of transistors...
Sony’s newest TV has it’s own AI brain to improve your viewing pleasure
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is increasingly being embedded into devices to give them new capabilities, and Sony’s latest TV extends that trend. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A lot’s happening in the TV world...
Researchers new breakthrough computer chip transfers data at light speed
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the world produces more information that ever before we need faster and faster systems to move it around and analyse it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our free XPotential Community, enjoy premium content, futureproof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. For years now researchers have...
MIT computing breakthrough will put a human brain in your pocket
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New computing platforms are getting closer than ever before to being able to pack the power of an entire human brain into a tiny computer chip. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
