Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say. Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity ...

Scientists have developed an entirely new kind of microchip that uses microwaves instead of conventional digital circuitry to perform operations. The processor, which can perform faster than ...

Every so often, a semiconductor startup emerges claiming to have cracked a problem the industry’s biggest players have wrestled with for decades. Most fade quietly, but occasionally, one arrives that ...

Once the design is complete, testing usually happens on an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). For anyone who has not encountered the term yet, an FPGA is a reprogrammable chip that you can program ...

Explore the 2026 ARM vs x86 battle—comparing processor architecture, CPU performance, and energy efficiency to reveal which chip design leads modern computing innovation.

Arm’s speciality is general-purpose chips called central processing units ( CPU s). Its power-efficient designs have proved ...