It’s not the smallest transistor out there, but the boffins at IBM have constructed the tiniest carbon nanotube transistor to date. It’s nine nanometers in size, making it one nanometer smaller than the presumed physical limit of silicon transistors… Tweet This Post

Generally, the combination of microchips, electricity and fluids is usually considered an incredibly bad thing. IBM, however, thinks it can combine those three to make super small and super powerful computers in the future… Tweet This Post

When it comes to our gadgets, we live by Moore’s law, which implies that as time goes by and tech gets better, the hardware we use gets smaller and more sophisticated.Now that we’ve whittled machines that filled whole rooms down to an MP3 player the size of a Triscuit, it’s hard to say how much [...]

Intel is expressing Moore’s Law anew as packing functions into fewer chips. New “Clarksfield,” “Arrandale” and “Jasper Forest” processors, among others, will showcase this theme later this month at the Intel Developer Forum. Intel Vice President Steve Smith discussed the highlights of annual marquee Intel event that will kick off September 22 in San Francisco [...]

A new GPU architecture wasn’t the only thing that AMD launched Thursday at its event on the USS Hornet; the company also unveiled its latest rebranding, along with two new notebook platforms. Let’s take a look at both, in turn… Tweet This Post

AMD unveiled its next-gen GPU, and secretive networked gaming company OTOY used it to power a demo of Crysis running on an iPhone. Believe it or not, it really worked.AMD unveiled its next-generation GPU architecture at an event today aboard the USS Hornet—2.5 teraFLOPS of floating-point power, or well over twice the company’s current high-end [...]