Samsung beats TSMC to be the first company to produce 3nm computer chips

Samsung beats TSMC to be the first company to produce 3nm computer chips

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The smaller the transistors the more powerful and efficient the computing system, but as transistors get smaller making these chips is getting expensive and harder to do.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses...

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TSMC and Graphcore partnership accelerates AI training by over 40 percent

TSMC and Graphcore partnership accelerates AI training by over 40 percent

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As computing platforms get more powerful, and as chips evolve, we’ll enter into a virtuous cycle of continuous AI acceleration and improvement.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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TSMC announces new 2nm chip plans as Intel struggles with 7nm

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...

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Supercomputer beating chip the size of a dinner plate now has 2.6 Trillion transistors

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...

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IBM pushes the boundaries and unveils the world’s first 2nm computer chip

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...

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The size of a grain of rice, researchers unveil the world’s smallest computers

The size of a grain of rice, researchers unveil the world’s smallest computers

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Micromotes will stop the sensors at the edge of the world’s networks from flooding datacenters with exabytes of worthless information, and open the door to new computing applications.   At just one cubic millimetre in size Micromotes, which are so small that they can almost be...

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MIT’s newest chip could bring speech recognition to every device

MIT’s newest chip could bring speech recognition to every device

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way we use and interact with devices is changing, increasingly we’ll be using our voices to control, interact and manage them.   The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people’s chief...

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Intel cosies up to ARM and stalks Apple

Intel cosies up to ARM and stalks Apple

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Intel wants to dominate the next generation of “Things” and it’s joined forces with ARM the industrys’ dominant player.   In a move that would have been jaw dropping a few years ago, Intel’s factories are soon going to be churning out chips based on ARM’s open sourced architectures...

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The death and rebirth of Moore’s Law

The death and rebirth of Moore’s Law

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Moore’s Law redefines itself for the next decade of computing.   Early in 2016 the worldwide semiconductor industry acknowledged what has become increasingly obvious to everyone involved: Moore’s law, the principle that has powered the information technology revolution since the 1960s, is nearing its end....

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