First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
Smarter multicore chips
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
Parallel programming may not be so daunting
“Lock-free” parallel algorithms may match performance of more complex “wait-free” algorithms.
Smarter caching
Cleverer management of the local memory banks known as ‘caches’ could improve computer chips’ performance while reducing their energy consumption.
Research update: New microchip sorts white blood cells from whole blood
Device may be used to quickly detect signs of sepsis, other inflammatory diseases.
Detecting DNA in space
Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation.
MIT researchers build Quad HD TV chip
A new video standard enables a fourfold increase in the resolution of TV screens, and an MIT chip was the first to handle it in real time.
Chips that can steer light
Record-setting ‘optical phased arrays’ could lead to better laser rangefinders, smaller medical-imaging devices and even holographic TVs.
Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor
New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.
Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominance
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles
New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.
New chip captures power from multiple sources
System developed at MIT could combine power harvested from light, heat and vibrations to run monitoring systems.