Engineers at MIT have turned one of computing’s biggest headaches, waste heat, into the main act. By sculpting “dust-sized” silicon structures that steer heat as precisely as electrical current, they ...

Texas Instruments on Wednesday agreed to buy Silicon Laboratories ⁠in a deal valuing the chip designer at $7.5 billion.

By Harshita Mary Varghese Feb 4 (Reuters) - Texas Instruments on Wednesday agreed to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for about $7.5 billion, aiming to expand its presence in wireless ...

In 2020, Kenton Smith, an engineer, was peering through a microscope at electronic devices, admiring the intricate designs. As he studied something called a voltage comparator, he saw a face staring ...

In the consumer electronics playbook, custom silicon is the final step in the marathon: you use off-the-shelf components to prove a product, achieve mass scale and only then invest in proprietary ...

A team at the University of Florida has developed a new kind of computer chip that uses light with electricity to perform one of the most power-intensive parts of artificial intelligence—image ...

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

Diraq has shown that its silicon-based quantum chips can maintain world-class accuracy even when mass-produced in semiconductor foundries. Achieving over 99% fidelity in two-qubit operations, the ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

Microsoft reported today it has successfully tested a new cooling system that removed heat up to three times better than cold plates. The system is called microfluidics, an approach that brings liquid ...