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 ...

I don't think you appreciate just how magical the computer chip at the heart of your smartphone or PC really is. In the case of a smartphone's SoC, you essentially have a single less-than-a-square ...

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 ...

Motorola Inc. has developed a computer chip it says is 35 times faster than today's models and will cut the cost of manufacturing electronics such as cell phones and DVD players, the company ...

For decades chip makers have been etching smaller and smaller patterns onto the surface of chips to speed performance and reduce power consumption. The fastest PC chips today are manufactured ...

Stanford researchers led an international team of engineers that figured out how to pack many functions of a computer onto a single chip, including processing circuits, memory storage, and a power ...

Reorganizing a computer chip: Transistors can now both process and store information Researchers solve decades-old challenge of building a functional transistor integrated with ferroelectric RAM ...

Researchers have found a way to produce computer chips largely from cellulose, a wood-derived material.

Advanced Micro Devices AMD.O also plans to make chips for PCs with Arm technology, according to two people familiar with the matter. Nvidia and AMD could sell PC chips as soon as 2025, one of the ...