In the past, the CPU was the undisputed center of computing. But today, the GPU has taken that crown—not by replacing the CPU ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Peking University in China has designed a revolutionary ‘all-optical’ chip that uses light to synchronize the speed of processors and can ...

Micron has produced an accelerator capable of performing high-speed, comprehensive search and analysis of complex, unstructured data streams. Micron calls it the Automata Processor (AP). It leverages ...

Yesterday, in a teleconference, Intel and Microsoft announced that they will start to fund serious efforts to make parallel computing mainstream. The companies are injecting $20 million into ...

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have collaborated with Stanford University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst have made recent breakthroughs in neuromorphic computing and the broader ...