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New haptic system lets soft objects respond to taps, squeezes and twists
New technology that invites expressive, two-way communication between a person and the soft, flexible object they are holding or wearing has been developed at the University of Bath.... Read more
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Hardware vulnerability allows attackers to hack AI training data
Researchers from NC State University have identified the first hardware vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) users by exploiting the physical hardware on which AI is run.... Read more
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Back to the future: Is light-speed analog computing on the horizon?
Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in analog computing, developing a programmable electronic circuit that harnesses the properties of high-frequency electromagnetic waves to perform complex parallel processing at light-speed.... Read more
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The lord of the ring mouse—a lightweight, ring-based computer mouse lasts over a month on a single charge
As the use of wearable devices such as augmented reality (AR) glasses has slowly but steadily increased, so too has the desire to control these devices in an easy and convenient way. Ring controllers worn on the finger already exist, but usually have some drawbacks in their size, weight or... Read more
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Cracking a long-standing weakness in a classic algorithm for programming reconfigurable chips
Researchers from EPFL, AMD, and the University of Novi Sad have uncovered a long-standing inefficiency in the algorithm that programs millions of reconfigurable chips used worldwide, a discovery that could reshape how future generations of these are designed and programmed.... Read more
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Semiconductor neuron mimics brain's memory and adaptive response abilities
The human brain does more than simply regulate synapses that exchange signals; individual neurons also process information through intrinsic plasticity, the adaptive ability to become more sensitive or less sensitive depending on context. Existing artificial intelligence semiconductors, however, have struggled to mimic this flexibility of the brain.... Read more
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Miniaturized ion traps show promise of 3D printing for quantum-computing hardware
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara have miniaturized quadrupole ion traps for the first time with 3D printing—a breakthrough in one of the most promising approaches to building a large-scale quantum computer.... Read more
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New design tackles integer factorization problems through digital probabilistic computing
Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) are advanced and specialized computing systems that could tackle computationally hard problems, such as optimization or integer factorization tasks, more efficiently than classical systems. To solve problems, PIMs rely on interacting probabilistic bits (p-bits), networks of interacting units of digital information with values that randomly fluctuate... Read more
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Material that listens: Chip-based approach enables speech recognition and more
Speech recognition without heavy software or energy-hungry processors: researchers at the University of Twente, together with IBM Research Europe and Toyota Motor Europe, present a completely new approach. Their chips allow the material itself to "listen." The publication by Prof. Wilfred van der Wiel and colleagues appears today in Nature.... Read more
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New chip design cuts AI energy use by enabling smarter FPGA processing
A new innovation from Cornell researchers lowers the energy use needed to power artificial intelligence—a step toward shrinking the carbon footprints of data centers and AI infrastructure.... Read more
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Silent deep bass: Wearable audio you can feel
Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed a portable, silent subwoofer that combines electrical muscle stimulation with low-frequency vibrations. This device enables users to physically feel deep bass in virtual reality (VR) and everyday music. While minimizing noise, it provides an immersive experience and rhythm perception comparable to conventional speakers,... Read more
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DNA cassette tapes could solve global data storage problems
Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don't have to look too far for a solution, because nature already has a powerful storage medium with... Read more
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Can Microsoft's analog optical computer be the answer to more energy-efficient AI and optimization tasks?
The constant scaling of AI applications and other digital technologies across industries is beginning to tax the energy grid due to its intensive energy consumption. Digital computing's energy and latency demands will likely continue to rise, challenging their sustainability.... Read more
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New non-volatile memory platform built with covalent organic frameworks
Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have created a new material platform for non-volatile memories using covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are crystalline solids with high thermal stability. The researchers successfully installed electric-field-responsive dipolar rotors into COFs.... Read more
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Hybrid 3D printing method boosts strength of eco-friendly parts with less plastic
3D printing has come a long way since its invention in 1983 by Chuck Hull, who pioneered stereolithography, a technique that solidifies liquid resin into solid objects using ultraviolet lasers.... Read more
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Europe bets on supercomputer to catch up in AI race
Europe's fastest supercomputer Jupiter was inaugurated Friday in Germany with Chancellor Friedrich Merz saying it could help the continent catch up in the global artificial intelligence race.... Read more
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Scientist discusses development of artificial synapses that mimic human brain function for next-gen AI chips
The Emerging Investigator Series by the journal Materials Horizons features outstanding work by young researchers in the field of materials science. In the latest Editorial, Dr. Eunho Lee, an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, where he leads... Read more
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Oxygen defects help unlock the secret of next-generation memory
Resistive random access memory (ReRAM), which is based on oxide materials, is gaining attention as a next-generation memory and neuromorphic computing device. Its fast speeds, data retention ability, and simple structure make it a promising candidate to replace existing memory technologies.... Read more
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Scientists develop the world's first 6G chip, capable of 100 Gbps speeds
Sixth generation, or 6G, wireless technology is one step closer to reality with news that Chinese researchers have unveiled the world's first "all-frequency" 6G chip. The chip is capable of delivering mobile internet speeds exceeding 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) and was developed by a team led by scientists from... Read more
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Artificial neuron merges DRAM with MoS₂ circuits to better emulate brain-like adaptability
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems has increased the demand for new hardware components that could speed up data analysis while consuming less power. As machine learning algorithms draw inspiration from biological neural networks, some engineers have been working on hardware that also mimics the... Read more
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How terahertz beams and a quantum-inspired receiver could free multi-core processors from the wiring bottleneck
For decades, computing followed a simple rule: Smaller transistors made chips faster, cheaper, and more capable. As Moore's law slows, a different limit has come into focus. The challenge is no longer only computation; modern processors and accelerators are throttled by interconnection.... Read more
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Low-power 'microwave brain' on a chip computes on both ultrafast data and wireless signals
Cornell University researchers have developed a low-power microchip they call a "microwave brain," the first processor to compute on both ultrafast data signals and wireless communication signals by harnessing the physics of microwaves.... Read more
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Flexible transmitter chip could make wireless devices more energy efficient
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have designed a novel transmitter chip that significantly improves the energy efficiency of wireless communications, which could boost the range and battery life of a connected device.... Read more
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Chicago's $1 billion quantum computer set to go live in 2028
The startup behind Chicago's more than $1 billion quantum computing deal said operations are expected to start in three years, a win for Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who backed the investment and is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate.... Read more
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Scalable transformer accelerator enables on-device execution of large language models
Large language models (LLMs) like BERT and GPT are driving major advances in artificial intelligence, but their size and complexity typically require powerful servers and cloud infrastructure. Running these models directly on devices—without relying on external computation—has remained a difficult technical challenge.... Read more
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Pancaked water droplets help launch Europe's fastest supercomputer
JUPITER became the world's fourth fastest supercomputer when it debuted last month. Though housed in Germany at the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC), Georgia Tech played a supporting role in helping the system land on the latest TOP500 list.... Read more
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AI cloud infrastructure gets faster and greener: NPU core improves inference performance by over 60%
The latest generative AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 and Google's Gemini 2.5 require not only high memory bandwidth but also large memory capacity. This is why generative AI cloud operating companies like Microsoft and Google purchase hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs.... Read more
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Hardware security tech can hide and reveal encryption keys on demand using 3D flash memory
Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team has developed a new hardware security technology based on commercially available 3D NAND flash memory (V-NAND flash memory).... Read more
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Engineers create first AI model specialized for chip design language
Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering have created VeriGen, the first specialized artificial intelligence model successfully trained to generate Verilog code, the programming language that describes how a chip's circuitry functions.... Read more
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AI models shrink to fit tiny devices, enabling smarter IoT sensors
Artificial intelligence is considered to be computationally and energy-intensive—a challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT), where small, embedded sensors have to make do with limited computing power, little memory and small batteries.... Read more
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Selfies could one day be stored on DNA strands
When it comes to storing images, DNA strands could be a sustainable, stable alternative to hard drives. Researchers at EPFL are developing a new image compression standard designed specifically for this emerging technology.... Read more
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New framework reduces memory usage and boosts energy efficiency for large-scale AI graph analysis
BingoCGN, a scalable and efficient graph neural network accelerator that enables inference of real-time, large-scale graphs through graph partitioning, has been developed by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. This breakthrough framework utilizes an innovative cross-partition message quantization technique and a novel training algorithm to significantly reduce memory... Read more
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3D chip stacking method created to overcome traditional semiconductor limitations
A novel power supply technology for 3D-integrated chips has been developed by employing a three-dimensionally stacked computing architecture consisting of processing units placed directly above stacks of dynamic random access memory.... Read more
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New all-silicon computer vision hardware advances in-sensor visual processing technology
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have pushed forward the development of computer vision with new, silicon-based hardware that can both capture and process visual data in the analog domain. Their work, described in the journal Nature Communications, could ultimately add to large-scale, data-intensive and latency-sensitive computer vision tasks.... Read more
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Wafer-scale accelerators could redefine AI
The promise of a new type of computer chip that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence and be more environmentally friendly is explored in a technology review paper published by UC Riverside engineers in the journal Device.... Read more
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Tiny receiver chip uses stacked capacitors to block interference in 5G IoT devices
MIT researchers have designed a compact, low-power receiver for 5G-compatible smart devices that is about 30 times more resilient to a certain type of interference than some traditional wireless receivers.... Read more
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Seeing clearly through thick fog: Researchers develop ultra-low noise, high sensitivity photodetector
Technologies enabling safe visual recognition in low-visibility environments are gaining increasing attention across sectors such as autonomous driving, aviation, and smart transportation. Thick fog remains a major challenge on highways, mountainous roads, and airport runways, where vision-based recognition systems frequently fail.... Read more
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Brain-like chips are boosting computers and battling cybercrime
The human brain is more powerful and energy-efficient than any computer. Scientists are imitating the way it works to produce better computer chips and help deal with the growing amounts of data generated every day.... Read more
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Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing
As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share.... Read more
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Chinese researchers debut world's first AI-based processor chip design system
A team of engineers, AI specialists and chip design researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has designed, built and tested what they are describing as the first AI-based chip design system. The group has published a paper describing their system, called QiMeng, on the arXiv preprint server.... Read more
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New security flaw allows eavesdropping via laptop and smart speaker microphones
The ghostly woman's voice pipes through the speakers, covered in radio static but her message intact from beyond—"The birch canoe slid on the smooth planks."... Read more
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High-speed DAC paves the way for faster and more energy-efficient optical and electrical links in data centers
At the 2025 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits, imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, and IDLab, an imec research group at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, announced a significant breakthrough in high-speed digital-to-analog conversion.... Read more
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'Optical neural engine' can solve partial differential equations
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are a class of mathematical problems that represent the interplay of multiple variables, and therefore have predictive power when it comes to complex physical systems. Solving these equations is a perpetual challenge, however, and current computational techniques for doing so are time-consuming and expensive.... Read more
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Old smartphones can have a new life as tiny data centers
Researchers at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science introduce a novel approach to reducing electronic waste and advancing sustainable data processing: turning old smartphones into tiny data centers.... Read more
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US supercomputer named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna to power AI and scientific research
A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday.... Read more
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World's lowest write power operation for high-speed SOT-MRAM cell achieved
Researchers at the Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), Tohoku University, have achieved the world's lowest write power for a specific type of memory storage device. Not only does this device boast record-breaking energy-efficiency, but it is also incredibly fast. This finding may lead to revolutionary advancements in memory... Read more
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AI chip developed for decentralized use without the cloud
A new AI chip developed at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) works without the cloud server or internet connections needed by existing chips. The AI Pro, designed by Prof Hussam Amrouch, is modeled on the human brain. Its innovative neuromorphic architecture enables it to perform calculations on the spot,... Read more
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Computer scientists discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors
Anyone who speculates on likely events ahead of time and prepares accordingly can react quicker to new developments. What practically every person does every day, consciously or unconsciously, is also used by modern computer processors to speed up the execution of programs. They have so-called speculative technologies which allow them... Read more
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Giving small satellites a bigger impact with an advanced wireless chip
The world is steadily moving toward seamless, global connectivity through satellite constellations. Small satellites—weighing up to 10 to 100 kgs—are further enhancing the connectivity with their flexibility and scalability. But the application of small satellites often faces a significant challenge in their ability to accept communication beams.... Read more
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More efficient method developed to monitor drivers' attention levels
Fifty-two people have died on Catalan roads so far this year, according to data from the Catalan Traffic Service. Although there have been fewer accidents in the first four months of the year than in the same period last year, accidents continue to have a terrible impact: more than 3,500... Read more