Computing
IBM Aims to Cool Chips With Water
A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, researchers at IBM have said.
Scientists at the firm have shown off a prototype device layered with thousands of “hair-width” cooling arteries. They believe it could be a solution to the increasing amount of heat pumped out by chips […]
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Victorian ‘Supercomputer’ is Reborn
by Maggie Shiels - BBC News
The world of computing could have been very different to that of today had a machine that was designed over 150 years ago been built at the time.
That is the view of Doron Swade, the man who is behind realising the creation of the famed Difference Engine No 2 which […]
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Nano Switch Hint at Future Chips
by Darren Waters - BBC News
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Researchers have built the world’s smallest transistor - one atom thick and 10 atoms wide - out of a material that could one day replace silicon.
The transistor, essentially an on/off switch, has been made using graphene, a two-dimensional material first discovered only four years […]
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