Hardware

Left: the system in the field with the battery attached; Right: the board with important components marked. Credit: Catharina Karlsson In a study published in Methods in Ecology & Evolution, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators developed a new...

Credit: Looking Glass Holographic display maker Looking Glass has announced that it has developed two versions of its second-generation holographic display. On its website, the team at Looking Glass provide a video showing off features that buyers can expect from the two new products, the 4K Gen2 and the 8K...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. will acquire Micron Technology Inc.'s semiconductor factory in a $900 million cash transaction, the company announced Wednesday. The factory, in Lehi, Utah, will be the fourth 300-millimeter wafer facility for the semiconductor company. It will also be used for 65-nanometer and 45-nm...

Credit: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab The sentient magic carpet from 'Aladdin' might have a new competitor. While it can't fly or speak, a new tactile sensing carpet from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can estimate human poses without using cameras, in a step towards...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nvidia, founding company of the GPU, has announced that on August 31 of 2021, support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as for all Kepler GPUs, will be dropped. The majority of these GPUs used to sell as part of the 600 and 700-series...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Qualcomm has been working for years to get its mobile technology into other products besides smartphones—think drones, laptops and smart security cameras. Those efforts to connect the unconnected—generally called the Internet of Things—have recently started to deliver consequential financial results for Qualcomm, with revenue topping $1...

Samsung logo. Credit: Unplash Computex Taipei announced on June 2, 2021 that the graphics and processors company AMD has collaborated with Samsung to develop RDNA 2 graphics technology for an Exynos mobile system-on-chip, with the goal of enhanced Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) performance in classic Samsung phones. While not many...

Figure 1: A schematic illustration of the new advanced Quad-MTJ technology concept. Based on Quad-interface technology with high retention over 10-years, advanced Quad-MTJ realizes a high endurance property by introducing (i) low RA MgO barrier, (ii) low magnetic dumping in recording layer, and (iii) stable reference layer. Credit: IEEE &...

Credit: Raimond Spekking/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The manufacturing world is facing one of its greatest challenges in years—a global shortage of semiconductors—and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight any time soon. According to Acer, one of the world's largest laptop manufacturers, companies will still be affected by...

Credit: University of Tokyo Machine learning is the process by which computers adapt their responses without human intervention. This form of artificial intelligence (AI) is now common in everyday tools such as virtual assistants and is being developed for use in areas from medicine to agriculture. A challenge posed by...

Half-Double function diagram. Credit: Google.com Google has just revealed the discovery of a new technique used by attackers to take advantage of the Rowhammer security exploit present in Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM). This new strategy involves capitalizing on the issues with some of the newer DRAM chips in the ways...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain At a time where many people use multiple different electronic devices at any given moment, the 240W charger offers a single, central power source for them all. Beginning with the 100W charger back in 2019, which could charge everything from your earbuds to your Google Chromebook,...

Seagate Mach.2 drive. Credit: Seagate Seagate has been working toward developing a dual-actuator hard drive, meaning that the drive will contain two sets of independently controlled read/write heads. Now, after several years, the company has released its first functional dual-actuator hard drive, the Mach.2. Currently, only enterprises can purchase and...

Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan design a dual camera-based platform employing an omnidirectional camera for target detection and a separate camera for its high-resolution capture and report an overall improved performance, opening doors to potential applications in security systems. Credit: Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan If you're a...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Check Point Research (CPR) has identified a security flaw in the Qualcomm chip of the mobile station modems (MSM) used in cellular communication for over 40 percent of phones worldwide. If exploited, a hacker could use the vulnerability to infect Android OS with unseen, malicious code,...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A British-US company announced Friday that it would invest up to 3.5 billion euros to build a massive data centre in Portugal by 2025 in response to demand for trans-Atlantic connections. The company—"start campus"—has chosen a site in the port of Sines, southwestern Portugal, near a...

Microsoft datacenter server cooling system. Credit: Microsoft Microsoft has implemented boiling water to help keep datacenter servers at reasonable temperatures. The company uses electronic equipment and water capable of boiling at 122 degrees Farenheit, 90 degrees below the boiling point of water. Once the computer processors within the datacenters reach...

Exploring different scenarios and variables in the storage design space, researchers find the parameter combinations for innovative, low-cost long-duration energy storage to potentially make a large impact in a more affordable and reliable energy transition. Credit: Bumper DeJesus/Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment "The overall question for me is...

Snapdragon 780G 5G. Credit: Qualcomm The latest in its communications developments, Qualcomm has revealed the Snapdragon 780G 5G Mobile Platform. This platform runs on many 7-series firsts, such as a tripe ISP, the 6th generation Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine as well as hyper rapid Wi-Fi 6. These features enable...

Credit: Samsung Samsung Electronics has announced on its Newsroom webpage the development of a new kind of memory chip architecture called high-bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory—HBM-PIM. The architecture adds artificial intelligence processing to high-bandwidth memory chips. The new chips will be marketed as a way to speed up data centers, boost speed...