The days of computer chips being mere pieces of tech are long gone. Now, they are very much weapons. Weapons of innovation, wealth, control, and power. That's why all the superpower nations are ...

Building a computer chip might seem like a typical process similar to constructing a car in a factory, but it's significantly more complex and microscopic.

If you read ExtremeTech regularly, you will have noticed that we love die shots -- close-up photographs of the transistors, wiring, and other circuitry at the core of every digital computer chip ...

Becoming the Silicon Valley of the Northeast may have as much power as the computer chips that will soon be designed and developed in the upstate New York region. The recent Chips 101 event, hosted by ...

Becoming the Silicon Valley of the Northeast may have as much power as the computer chips that will soon be designed and developed in the upstate New York region. The recent Chips 101 event, hosted by ...

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed Friday that the company is working with the Trump administration on a new computer chip ...

Jeff Dean, head of Google’s AI efforts, describes how the company is experimenting with designing its chips using machine learning algorithms in place of some of the human design effort. The ...

Future computer chips could be built on top of mushrooms, making a flexible circuit that is environmentally friendly and biodegradable.

Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more powerful computer chips. The company is researching ways in ...

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