Microsoft announced the development of the Majorana 1 chipset on Wednesday, highlighting a breakthrough in quantum computing. The Redmond-based tech giant has been researching new materials and architectures for 17 years and now claims to have developed the world’s first ‘topoconductor’ — a material that exists in a distinct state beyond solids, liquids, and gases. … Read more
Microsoft announced the development of the Majorana 1 chipset on Wednesday, highlighting a breakthrough in quantum computing. The Redmond-based tech giant has been researching new materials and architectures for 17 years and now claims to have developed the world’s first ‘topoconductor’ — a material that exists in a distinct state beyond solids, liquids, and gases. … Read more
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow, traditional computer hardware is struggling to keep up with the increasing demands of AI tasks. These tasks, powered by deep learning and machine learning, require a lot of computational power. The current hardware designs, which are based on the von Neumann architecture, were not built for these new … Read more
The RISC-V Summit 2024 held in Santa Clara, California, was a watershed moment in the evolution of open-source computing. Leading companies such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Google, and Samsung highlighted their progress with RISC-V architecture—a technology that promises to reshape the computing landscape by challenging the dominance of x86 and ARM processors. One of the summit’s … Read more