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Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' that mimics the human brain
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Intel's Hala Point neuromorphic computer is powered by more than 1,000 new AI chips and performs 50 times faster than equivalent conventional computing systems.
Why quantum computing at 1 degree above absolute zero is such a big deal
By Andre Luiz Saraiva De Oliveira, Andrew Dzurak published
Operating at even marginally warmer temperatures means quantum computers could be much easier to operate — and much more widely available.
New York college becomes 1st university with on-campus IBM quantum computer that is 'scientifically useful'
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
IBM's latest System One quantum computer is based at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and is the 1st IBM quantum machine to be installed at a university campus in the U.S.
Error-corrected qubits 800 times more reliable after breakthrough, paving the way for 'next level' of quantum computing
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists used a technique called 'active syndrome extraction' to build four logical qubits from 30 physical ones and run 14,000 experiments without detecting a single error.
What is quantum computing?
By Peter Ray Allison last updated
Reference Quantum computing opens the door to ultra-powerful machines that can perform calculations that would take supercomputers millions of years.
Computing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
By letting different processing units — like GPUs, NPUs and hardware accelerators — work in parallel, rather than in sequence, systems can be up to twice as fast and consume 50% less energy.
World's largest computer chip WSE-3 will power massive AI supercomputer 8 times faster than the current record-holder
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) chip contains four trillion transistors and will power the 8-exaFLOP Condor Galaxy 3 supercomputer one day.
New DNA-infused computer chip can perform calculations and make future AI models far more efficient
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
The new processor stores data in modified DNA molecules and uses microfluidic channels to perform basic computations.
Qubits are notoriously prone to failure — but building them from a single laser pulse may change this
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Qubits are normally made from superconducting metals and need to be cooled to near absolute zero to avoid collapsing. But scientists just built an error-free "logical qubit" from a single laser pulse — and it works at room temperature.
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