MIT researchers are developing a new computer chip to increase efficiency and decrease the carbon footprint of cloud computing, reports Daniela Hernandez for The Huffington Post. Hernandez explains that the chip “uses light, instead of electricity, as the highway for information.”
Neel V. Patel interviews Professor Srini Devadas for Popular Science about the future of computer chip design. Devadas contends that there is still room for innovation of chips using existing materials.
R. Colin Johnson of EE Times reports that MIT researchers are, “aiming for a multicore architecture that can scale to any number of cores, with cache coherency. So far, they've prototyped a 36-core version.”