Microprocessors23 Stories

We look at how the challenges and opportunities of mobile computing are transforming the microprocessor.

  1. How Your Retina Screen is Helping Make Supercomputers More Powerful than Ever

    Consumers’ relentless demand for better user experiences helps create the technology that drives high-performance computing forward.
    November 15, 2012

  2. Tiny Springs Could Reduce Microchip Waste

    A new manufacturing approach could end the junking of several chips when one fails.
    July 13, 2010

  3. Nanoscale Random Number Circuit to Secure Future Chips

    Intel unveils a circuit that can pump out truly random numbers at high speed.
    June 29, 2010

  4. Writing Circuits on Graphene

    A heated AFM tip can draw nanometers-wide conductive lines on graphene oxide.
    June 15, 2010

  5. Computing with Secrets, but Keeping them Safe

    A cryptographic method could see cloud services work with sensitive data without ever decrypting it.
    June 11, 2010

  6. One Tablet per Child

    OLPC may drop “$100 laptop” in an attempt to develop an innovative $75 tablet computer.
    June 7, 2010

  7. High-Performance Electronics without the High Price

    A method for printing exotic semiconductors brings down the cost of high-performance solar cells and microchips.
    May 21, 2010

  8. March of the Machines
    April 20, 2010

  9. Designing for Mobility
    April 20, 2010

  10. Mobile Computing is Transforming the Microprocessor Industry
    April 20, 2010

  11. Printing a Path to Success
    April 20, 2010

  12. A New Processor for a New Market
    April 20, 2010

  13. Multicore Processors Create ­Software Headaches
    April 20, 2010

  14. Multicore Patents
    April 20, 2010

  15. Mobile Chips Threaten High-Performance Manufacturers
    April 20, 2010

  16. Computing beyond Silicon
    April 20, 2010

  17. The High Cost of Upholding Moore's Law
    April 20, 2010

  18. Intel Prototypes Low-Power Circuits

    Chips that let errors happen, then correct them, use less power overall.
    March 23, 2010

  19. Memristors Make Chips Cheaper

    The first hybrid memristor-transistor chip could be cheaper and more energy efficient.
    November 25, 2009

  20. Cooling Chips with Thermoelectrics

    Researchers have made ultrathin refrigerators for microprocessors.
    January 26, 2009

  21. The Year in Computing

    Computer interfaces, wireless devices, memory, and microprocessors were all hot topics in 2008.
    December 23, 2008

  22. The Promise of Personal Supercomputers

    What will it take to put thousands of microprocessors in cell phones and laptops?
    February 23, 2007

  23. Maintaining Moore's Law without Silicon

    Alternative semiconductors may be the key to shrinking microprocessors and improving performance.
    December 20, 2006