Topic
Computer chips
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Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
June 23, 2014 -
Parallel programming may not be so daunting
“Lock-free” parallel algorithms may match performance of more complex “wait-free” algorithms.
March 24, 2014 -
How to program unreliable chips
A new language lets coders reason about the trade-off between fidelity of execution and power or time savings in the computers of the future.
November 4, 2013 -
Managing multicore memory
MIT research shows that it may be time to let software, rather than hardware, manage the high-speed on-chip memory banks known as ‘caches.’
September 13, 2013 -
Surprising turns in magnetic thin films could lead to better data storage
MIT researchers discover efficient control of magnetism in chiral ferromagnets.
June 18, 2013 -
Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor
New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.
January 3, 2013 -
Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominance
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
December 10, 2012 -
Simulating tomorrow’s chips
A new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.
April 13, 2012 -
Chips as mini Internets
The data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements.
April 10, 2012 -
Testing unbuilt chips
A new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.
March 9, 2012 -
Microchips’ optical future
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States.
February 15, 2012 -
Research update: Sharpening the lines
New advance could lead to even smaller features in the constant quest for more compact, faster microchips.
December 14, 2011 -
Important step toward computing with light
Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips.
November 23, 2011 -
Mimicking the brain, in silicon
New computer chip models how neurons communicate with each other at synapses.
November 15, 2011 -
Building chips from collapsing nanopillars
By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.
September 1, 2011 -
The future of chip manufacturing
MIT researchers show how to make e-beam lithography, commonly used to prototype computer chips, more practical as a mass-production technique.
June 30, 2011 -
Toward faster transistors
MIT physicists discover a new physical phenomenon that could eventually lead to the first increases in computers’ clock speed since 2002.
May 13, 2011