The LightGen chip is orders of magnitude more efficient too. But it isn't ready to break out of the lab just yet. As generative AI models grow more powerful, their energy use is becoming a serious ...

Chinese scientists have unveiled an optical computing chip that outperformed Nvidia’s leading AI hardware by over a hundredfold in speed and energy efficiency – particularly for generative tasks such ...

Lisa Su, chair and chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), began a visit to China on Tuesday, meeting Chinese computer giant Lenovo in Beijing just days after US President Donald Trump said ...

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BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports ...

The transformation of Phoenix into a semiconductor hub by Taiwan’s TSMC illustrates the difficulties of large-scale projects in the United States. Supported by The transformation of Phoenix into a ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.—On a quiet residential street a few blocks from Stanford University, two former Google researchers are launching a startup they hope will remake the $800 billion chip industry. Anna ...

A chip first developed more than 10 years ago might be Google’s best shot at breaking Nvidia’s stranglehold on the exceedingly lucrative business of selling computing power to tech companies as they ...

While companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink are hard at work on brain-computer interfaces that require surgery to cut open the skull and insert a complex array of wires into a person’s head, a team of ...

In January 2025 DeepSeek, a little-known Chinese startup, stunned the world with an artificial-intelligence (ai) model that rivalled those developed in America. It was all the more striking because it ...

A stacked chip captures, encrypts, and searches image data directly on hardware, combining photodetection, memory, and key generation for secure real-time processing in connected devices. (Nanowerk ...