chips

These Tiny Chiplets Could Coat Nearly Anything In Digital Intelligence

Imagine if silicon chips were smaller than a grain of sand and could be made using a laser printer: everything under the sun could be made unobtrusively smart. But that’s not science fiction, and you don’t have to imagine too hard — because researchers have already done it.


Watching Potato Chips Being Made Is As Addictive As Eating Them

NPR has a nice little video feature about Herrs potato chips being made, and it’s worth taking a few minutes to watch. The real stars are the animated GIFs of the machinery at work.


Rumourmodo: Intel In Discussions To Produce Apple Chips

Reuters is reporting today that Intel has been in rather unlikely discussions that could pave the way for the processor giant producing chips to Apple specifications.


The World’s Smallest ARM Chip Is Going To Be Inside You

Manufactured by Freescale, this chunk of silicone claims to be the world’s smallest ARM-powered chip. Measuring just 2mm x 2mm x 0.5mm, it’s so small that it will likely end up inside… you.


Benchmarks Are In: Nvidia’s Tegra 4 Really Cooks

When Nvida announced the Tegra 4 back at the Consumer Electronics Show, they laid down the claim it was the world’s fastest mobile processor. Now, at Mobile World Congress, the benchmarks are coming in and there’s no questioning it. The Tegra 4 is a total speed demon.


New Dedicated AR Chips Could Keep Your Reality Augmented Forever

Augment reality has always been cool, but it’s never quite been practical for extended use. Crazy processor demands chew up battery power and deliver a workable experience, but not one that can last. Metaio aims to but an end to that with the first ever dedicated augmented-reality chip, and it’s coming as soon as the end of this year.


MIT Is Making A Chip That Makes You A Better Smartphone Photographer

Most of the post-processing done by a camera is handled by software that MIT researchers believe could be a lot smarter, faster and user-friendly. So they’re developing a single chip that can handle these operations with remarkable efficiency.


Nvidia Tegra 4i: Quad-Core Processing And 4G For Mobile Awesome

Just over a month after announcing the Tegra 4 processor, Nvidia’s back with another mobile chipset, the Tegra 4i, which comes with an integrated LTE modem. It’s designed specifically for use with smartphones. Where the Tegra 4 is all about raw power for big phones and tablets, the Tegra 4i is a marvel of tiny efficient design.


Intel’s New Chips: Everything You Need To Know

Intel is talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it is new, some of it we’ve heard before. But we’ll let you know everything important that goes down today.


Scientists Have Made The First Truly 3D Microchip

The fastest microchips we have can only pass their data from side to side and front to back, no matter how close their components are squeezed together. A new chip developed by researchers at University of Cambridge, on the other hand, can pass data up and down too, making for the world’s first truly 3D microchip.