Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.
April 19, 2018System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms.
June 30, 2017AIM Photonics fall meeting attendees tackle plans for making computer chips with integrated optical devices and developing a regional workforce.
November 30, 2016Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
June 23, 2014“Lock-free” parallel algorithms may match performance of more complex “wait-free” algorithms.
March 24, 2014A 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, 2013MIT 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, 2013MIT researchers discover efficient control of magnetism in chiral ferromagnets.
June 18, 2013New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.
January 3, 2013MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
December 10, 2012A new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.
April 13, 2012The data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements.
April 10, 2012A new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.
March 9, 2012To 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, 2012New advance could lead to even smaller features in the constant quest for more compact, faster microchips.
December 14, 2011Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips.
November 23, 2011New computer chip models how neurons communicate with each other at synapses.
November 15, 2011By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.
September 1, 2011MIT researchers show how to make e-beam lithography, commonly used to prototype computer chips, more practical as a mass-production technique.
June 30, 2011MIT physicists discover a new physical phenomenon that could eventually lead to the first increases in computers’ clock speed since 2002.
May 13, 2011