IBM’s brain inspired analogue chip dramatically cuts AI energy use
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IBM wants to build a 10,000 Qubit quantum computer within 10 years
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Researchers clash silicon and photonic chips together to build ultra-fast low power chips
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This new water based computer chip brings Terahertz computing in reach
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New computer chip transmits all the world’s internet traffic in under a second
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New Laser on a Chip tech brings holographic smartphones closer to sci-fact
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The first aqueous ionic transistor for liquid computers ran a liquid neural network
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think of computing as being “silicon based” and “solid” but the future of computing breaks all these rules and more. 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,...
Scientists built the largest AI supercomputer yet to create brain scale AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We’re conditioned to think that computer chips should be small, but a supercomputer made from chips the size of dinner plates is breaking records. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Dev creates Minecraft in Minecraft that runs Minecraft in parallel worlds conundrum
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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
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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
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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
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