Diamond based quantum computers paired with supercomputers for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are some workloads supercomputers are better at, and there are other workloads, like optimisation problems, that quantum computers are great at – now researchers have the best of both worlds. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Three tech giants team up to build ‘giant’ laptops with flexible displays
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to fold screens and displays opens the door to new computer and smart device formats, and this is just the beginning. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. We’ve all seen...
World’s first holographic smartphone makes its debut
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Advances in nanotechnology and nanophotonics are helping companies make great strides in creating, and bringing to market, new holographic display systems and they’re only just getting started. A few months ago cinema camera maker RED came out with the surprise announcement that they were...
US Department of Energy taps HP’s ‘Machine’ to beat China to Exascale HPC
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to create next generation anything, whether it’s AI, aircraft, drugs, energy, healthcare, or materials you need a supercomputer and today China has the advantage but the US want to get back on top. For the first time in history the US...
Google reinvents hyperscale storage
Organisations that operate hyperscale cloud data centers, such as Alibaba, AWS, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Tencent have always pushed the limits of what’s technically possible with yesterday’s hardware so in 2011 it came as no surprise that they formed the Open computing Project alliance, a program that set about to...
How to fight commoditisation
In today’s world one thing is certain – at 2AM a year or two after your blockbuster products initial launch you’ll wake up in a sweat wondering why your margins are collapsing and why your market share is plummeting. Well my friend, we have news for you – your product...
