https://techxplore.com/hardware-news/ en-us The latest news on consumer electronic hardware, electronic gadgets, hardware and electronics. A technology for the three-dimensional integration of processing units and memory, as reported by researchers from Tokyo Tech, has achieved the highest attainable performance in the whole world, paving the way to faster and more efficient computing. Named "BBCube 3D," this innovative stacked architecture achieves higher data bandwidths than state-of-the-art memory technologies, while also minimizing the energy needed for bit access. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-bbcube-3d-cpugpu-memory-hybrid.html Hardware Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:49:03 EDT news607250941 Researchers have developed a new design for computer memory that could both greatly improve performance and reduce the energy demands of internet and communications technologies, which are predicted to consume nearly a third of global electricity within the next ten years. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-memory-greatly-energy.html Hardware Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:16:04 EDT news606734161 Advanced Micro Devices has revealed a new artificial intelligence chip in its race to compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia in supplying the foundation for a boom in AI-fueled business tools. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-chip-amd-rival-nvidia.html Hardware Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:45:08 EDT news605961905 Researchers have created a small device that "sees" and creates memories in a similar way to humans, in a promising step towards one day having applications that can make rapid, complex decisions such as in self-driving cars. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-tiny-device-mimics-human-vision.html Hardware Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:00:01 EDT news605951993 Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be used to help combat nausea, headaches and dizziness among virtual reality (VR) users and make the technology more accessible, according to a new study with Charles Darwin University (CDU). https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-cybersickness-vr-users.html Hardware Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:42:19 EDT news605533337 The never-ending quest for faster, smaller computers that can do more has led manufacturers to design ever tinier transistors that are now packed into computer chips by the tens of billions. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-photonic-power-artificial-life.html Hardware Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:33:39 EDT news605352807 Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering have fabricated a microprocessing chip using plain English "conversations" with an AI model, a first-of-its-kind achievement that could lead to faster chip development and allow individuals without specialized technical skills to design chips. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-conversations-ai-microprocessing-chips.html Hardware Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:40:03 EDT news605277601 In recent years, electronics engineers have been trying to develop new brain-inspired hardware that can run artificial intelligence (AI) models more efficiently. While most existing hardware is specialized in either sensing, processing or storing data, some teams have been exploring the possibility of combining these three functionalities in a single device. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-electrochemical-transistor-sensor-processor.html Hardware Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:30:01 EDT news604748492 The hottest thing in technology is an unprepossessing sliver of silicon closely related to the chips that power video game graphics. It's an artificial intelligence chip, designed specifically to make building AI systems such as ChatGPT faster and cheaper. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-chips-hot-theyre-investors.html Hardware Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:28:13 EDT news604812488 A team of security researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany has reported a new form of side-channel attack that capitalizes on power and speed management methods used by graphics processing units and systems on a chip (SoCs). https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-hot-pixels-cpu.html Hardware Wed, 31 May 2023 09:30:03 EDT news604727043 Data-intensive computing applications such as pattern recognition, video processing, database engines and network routers have drastically increased due to the rapid development of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), which pose stringent requirements for storing and processing massive data resources. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-ultra-high-density-energy-efficient-content-memory-based.html Hardware Tue, 30 May 2023 15:10:05 EDT news604678201 Current computer systems are very good at performing exact calculations. But as we are using more and more AI-based applications, we also need more efficient systems that are able to process data in real time with the same precision. TU/e researcher Eveline van Doremaele is working on a new generation of computers modeled after the human brain. What's more, she used organic materials for the unique chip she developed with neuromorphic computing, which means it is able to interact with our bodies. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-smart-chip-based-human-brain.html Hardware Fri, 26 May 2023 12:50:04 EDT news604324201 Researchers at Oregon State University and Baylor University have made a breakthrough toward reducing the energy consumption of the photonic chips used in data centers and supercomputers. The paper is published in the journal Scientific Reports. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-breakthrough-chip-energy-efficiency-center.html Hardware Wed, 24 May 2023 10:21:58 EDT news604142516 The world's first flexible, transparent augmented reality (AR) display screen using 3D printing and low-cost materials has been created by researchers at the University of Melbourne, KDH Design Corporation and the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN). The development of the new display screen is set to advance how AR is used across a wide range of industries and applications. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-transparent-augmented-reality-display-possibilities.html Hardware Wed, 17 May 2023 10:18:24 EDT news603537495 High-performance computing (HPC) has become an essential tool for processing large datasets and simulating nature's most complex systems. However, researchers face difficulties in developing more intensive models because Moore's Law—which states that computational power doubles every two years—is slowing, and memory bandwidth still cannot keep up with it. But scientists can speed up simulations of complex systems by using compression algorithms running on AI hardware. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-compression-algorithms-ai-hardware-simulate.html Hardware Tue, 16 May 2023 09:31:03 EDT news603448261 Researchers have created atomically thin artificial neurons capable of processing both light and electric signals for computing. The material enables the simultaneous existence of separate feedforward and feedback paths within a neural network, boosting the ability to solve complex problems. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-artificial-neurons-mimic-complex-brain.html Hardware Fri, 05 May 2023 13:05:42 EDT news602510739 Researchers at the Technical University of Berlin say they uncovered a new vulnerability in AMD's Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The flaw exposes firmware TPMs, or fTPMs, to attack. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-amd-ftpm-vulnerability-uncovered.html Hardware Wed, 03 May 2023 17:00:01 EDT news602351146 Neural networks are distributed computing structures inspired by the structure of a biological brain and aim to achieve cognitive performance comparable to that of humans but in a much shorter time. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-neural-networks-photonic-chips-harnessing.html Hardware Tue, 02 May 2023 11:20:38 EDT news602245229 Researchers have developed a new light-based computing scheme that uses a photonic integrated circuit to reduce the energy necessary for cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. Mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin—a process of verifying transactions and adding new cryptocurrency to the blockchain—consumes up to 1% of the world's energy. This energy expenditure is expected to grow as cryptocurrency and blockchain applications become increasingly mainstream. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-light-based-scheme-power-cryptocurrencies.html Hardware Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:05:51 EDT news601823147 Researchers from the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering at Nankai University have used flexible artificial synapse devices to develop a neuromorphic motion perception system that realizes the brain's multisensory functions at the hardware level and exhibits excellent motion perception performance. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-team-brain-sensory-functions-artificial.html Hardware Wed, 26 Apr 2023 09:19:03 EDT news601719541 Mass spectrometers are extremely precise chemical analyzers that have many applications, from evaluating the safety of drinking water to detecting toxins in a patient's blood. But building an inexpensive, portable mass spectrometer that could be deployed in remote locations remains a challenge, partly due to the difficulty of miniaturizing the vacuum pump it needs to operate at a low cost. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-3d-miniature-vacuum.html Hardware Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:19:21 EDT news601633156 Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam—a feat that is likely the first of its kind. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-team-four-legged-robotic.html Hardware Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:44:29 EDT news600968551 Urban real-world environments have limited physical space for foot-based locomotion and present challenges to natural VR locomotion (since virtual environments are much larger than the corresponding real-world environment), a fact that has been noted in past studies (Mandal 2013; Pai and Kunze 2017). https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-natural-comfortable-seamless-walk-virtual-reality.html Hardware Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:41:45 EDT news600442900 Cornell University researchers have developed a silent-speech recognition interface that uses acoustic-sensing and artificial intelligence to continuously recognize up to 31 unvocalized commands, based on lip and mouth movements. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-ai-equipped-eyeglasses-silent-speech.html Hardware Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:48:05 EDT news600004082 Whether drilling, turning or milling: In machining—as well as in primary forming and re-forming, die casting and many other applications—tools are of pivotal importance for industrial production. Their performance significantly influences both the quality and the cost of the manufactured product and, consequently, the economic and ecological sustainability of the production process. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-sustainable-chains-resilient-smart-tools.html Hardware Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:20:02 EDT news599843422 Say goodbye to games controllers or keyboards, say hello to highly flexible, ultrathin silicone films. Professor Stefan Seelecke and his team at Saarland University are currently developing a novel type of technology that allows humans and computers to communicate more naturally and more intuitively. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-personal-smart-textiles-aid-communication.html Hardware Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:10:46 EDT news599843442 Imagine a movie about a rogue employee who breaches security in a company that implants chips inside half of the world's computers. They embed a Trojan in systems around the globe and hold the world to ransom. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-magnetic-tunnel-junctions-tampering-piracy.html Hardware Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:27:03 EDT news599743621 The case for building Scalable Neuromorphic Networks is this: like humans, smarter chips have a larger, tighter neural network. Indeed, neural networks are the current state-of-the-art for machine learning. This isn't robotics, where a non-sentient arm follows explicit instructions. Instead, machine learning uses algorithms and statistical models to analyze and then draw inferences from patterns in data. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-real-scalability-chip-based-decision-making.html Hardware Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:31:07 EDT news599491864 Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it runs. But it is hardware, says USC Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joshua Yang, that has become "the bottleneck." Now, Yang's new research with collaborators might change that. They believe that they have developed a new type of chip with the best memory of any chip thus far for edge AI (AI in portable devices). https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-chip-greatest-precision-memory-date.html Hardware Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:49:03 EDT news599320141 Many homes have electronic timers for automatically turning lights on or off automatically the same time each day. However, the precise control of larger electrical devices requires more sophisticated electronics. Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo have successfully developed a programmable gate driver for solid-state electronic transistor switches, and using empirical tests, show that their device showed reduced switching loss even under changes in input current and temperature fluctuations. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-gate-driver-circuit-bipolar-transistor.html Hardware Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:27:58 EDT news598786073