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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In Part 1, we covered computer architecture and how a processor works at a high level. Part 2 explored the design and implementation of individual chip components.

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 ...

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 ...

In the study, published as a letter in the journal Physical Review A, the researchers simulated realistic architectures and found that even imperfect links between quantum chips can still produce ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Intel will invest $20 billion in a new computer chip facility in Ohio amid a global shortage of microprocessors used in everything from phones and cars to video games. After ...

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed Friday that the company is working with the Trump administration on a new computer chip designed for sale to China, it marked the latest chapter in a ...