The Beyond Gravity Lynx computer for satellites is 250 times more powerful than regular onboard computers. The Lynx computer provides capability to process data already in orbit instead of processing ...

Existing processors in PCs, smartphones and other devices can be supercharged for enormous power and efficiency gains using a new parallel processing software framework designed to eliminate ...

So you’d like to do more volunteering but can’t find the time? Here’s an easy way to do it: Donate the spare processing power on your computer via one of the dozens of ongoing volunteer computing ...

Artistic rendering of a photonic chip with both light and RF frequency encoding data. Image credit: B.Dong / University of Oxford. A breakthrough development in photonic-electronic hardware could ...

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. When you purchase through links on our ...

The speed of a computer, which is determined by the number of instructions it can execute in one second. For example, the average desktop computer can execute two billion machine instructions per ...

Moore’s Law—the theory that the number of transistors installed in a silicon chip will double every two years as the cost of a computer reduces by half—turns 56 years old this year. This daring ...

There are some problems that are simply too complex for even the most powerful of today’s computers, and researchers are trying to overcome the limits of traditional computer designs to enable ...

Data storage and data processing have always been separate functions, but what if they could be unified and achieve much better performance? That’s the promise of computational storage. Although media ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...

Adding a sensor to a project used to be a big deal in the analog times. Special wiring. Tiny signals needing amplification. Calibration with potentiometer tweaking. Strip chart recorders with funky ...