This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rebecca Roberts. Intel announced the other day that it will begin making microchips with a new material, the element hafnium. Industry analyst Nathan ...

So long silicon! A small change in the design of a computer chip could soon lead to the creation of smaller, faster and far more powerful computers. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC ...

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter systems has driven researchers to an unlikely ally—light itself. A new study by ...

Current copper wiring in computer chips struggles to carry electricity efficiently as circuits shrink to the nanoscale, leading to a process that generates heat and limits performance. These materials ...

High performance computing has entered a new phase, one where the chips inside a machine can reshape themselves around the code they are running. Instead of simply stacking more processors and drawing ...

Companies that make memory chips have seen their share prices skyrocket over the last year. Investors received even more good ...

The GB200 NVL72 is like a massive, interconnected brain for AI. It links together 72 of the new Blackwell graphics chips and 36 main computer chips. This allows it to work on incredibly large AI ...