After semiconductors, semimetals might be the next big thing as the tech industry looks for a replacement for ubiquitous copper
Copper is reaching its limits, and semimetals like niobium phosphide could revolutionize conductivity, enhancing efficiency ...
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Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion
This is not a church service or even a Bible study. It is, instead, an entirely new kind of event in Silicon Valley. We are here to listen in on a conversation between Dr. Francis S. Collins ...
Android Authority20d
Should you buy a phone with a silicon-carbon battery? Here's the catch
Thankfully, battery engineers are on the case, and many of today’s best flagship smartphones are now shipping with new silicon carbon batteries. This allows them to boast even larger battery ...
The New York Times20d
SoftBank to Buy Ampere, a Silicon Valley Chip Start-Up, for $6.5 Billion
By Don Clark Reporting from San Francisco SoftBank said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $6.5 billion for the Silicon Valley chip start-up Ampere Computing, doubling down on a bet that ...
Network World20d
Nvidia’s silicon photonics switches bring better power efficiency to AI data centers
Amid the flood of news from Nvidia’s annual GTC event, one item stood out. Nvidia introduced new silicon photonics network switches that integrate network optics into the switch using a ...
theregister20d
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
GTC Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with "millions of GPUs," arguing that the ...
Interesting Engineering21d
World’s first silicon-based quantum computer powered by regular socket unveiled
Equal1, a spin-off company from the University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, has unveiled the world’s first silicon-based quantum computer at a conference in California. Dubbed Bell-1 ...
The Next Platform21d
Nvidia Weaves Silicon Photonics Into InfiniBand And Ethernet
Which we crave on your behalf. It is, however, the day when Nvidia will reveal its plans to adopt silicon photonics and to deploy co-packed optics (CPO) with its Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum ...
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Electron Inversion and Tunneling at Silicon Thermal Oxide Interfaces for Solar-Driven Molecular Catalysis to Syngas
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States ...
The Next Web22d
Irish startup Equal1 unveils world’s first silicon-based quantum computer
Irish startup Equal1 has unveiled the world’s first quantum computer that runs on a hybrid quantum-classical silicon chip. Dubbed Bell-1 — after quantum physicist John Stewart Bell — the ...