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Shares in Chinese Nvidia challenger surge on debut
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
The company makes advanced processors, which are used to train and power artificial intelligence that investors hope can fill a gap left by US behemoth Nvidia's...
Amazon unveils new AI chip in battle against Nvidia
Dec 02, 2025 (AFP)
The move intensifies competition in the AI chip market, where Nvidia currently dominates with an estimated 80- to 90-percent market share for products used in t...
Japan's Rapidus plans second cutting-edge chip plant: reports
Nov 26, 2025 (AFP)
Rapidus, a government-backed joint venture involving Sony, Toyota, IBM and others, is seen as an attempt to put Japan back on the map in the strategic sector. T...
Adaptive photonic circuits enable quantum neural network breakthroughs
Nov 26, 2025 (SPX)
The team constructed a modular quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) utilizing single photons from a quantum-dot source and two integrated quantum photoni...
Johns Hopkins team breaks through quantum noise
Nov 24, 2025 (SPX)
Noise in quantum systems can come from traditional sources, like temperature swings, vibration, and electrical interference, as well as from atomic-level activi...
Gold electron spins mapped in full resolve decades-old surface debate
Nov 24, 2025 (SPX)
The results validated the Rashba effect on gold surfaces, assigning a clockwise spin texture to the outer electron band and a counter-clockwise texture to the i...
New class of soft materials process logic using beams of light
Nov 21, 2025 (SPX)
Fariha Mahmood, the paper's first author and a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge, recounted, "To see these materials not only respond to light but also perfo...
Single-photon switch could enable photonic computing
Nov 21, 2025 (SPX)
Now, researchers at Purdue University have achieved this long-sought milestone, demonstrating what they call a "photonic transistor" that operates at single-pho...
Circuits Integrated selects UK Space South Central cluster for 3D satellite chipset expansion
Nov 20, 2025 (SPX)
Circuits Integrated specializes in integrated circuit, antenna-in-package, and system-in-package design. Its new UK operations will accelerate work on Kythrion,...
Four arrested in US in scheme to smuggle AI chips to China
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
Chinese nationals Cham Li, 38, and Jing Chen, 45, along with Americans Hon Ning Ho, 34, and Brian Raymond, 46, are charged with conspiring to violate the Export...
Memory chip crunch set to drive up smartphone prices
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
The world's biggest tech companies are ploughing head-spinningly huge sums into building the hardware that powers artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT. Th...
Nvidia reports 'off the charts' demand for AI chips
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
The solid results come amid increasing talk among Wall Street analysts of an AI bubble, with all eyes on how Nvidia, the industry's bellwether company, will wea...
China, Netherlands move to resolve Nexperia chip row
Nov 19, 2025 (AFP)
The two sides are moving to resolve a dispute that erupted in September when the Dutch government effectively took control of Nexperia, which is based in the Ne...
AI-driven optical chip achieves real time tensor operations for next gen intelligence systems
Nov 15, 2025 (SPX)
Tensor processing supports most artificial intelligence systems, requiring arithmetic beyond regular math. Unlike electronic processors that handle such operati...
Zinc oxide device achieves electric control of triple quantum dots for quantum computing
Nov 15, 2025 (SPX)
The study produced a zinc oxide device that forms and controls three coupled quantum dots by electric field. Each quantum dot reached the few-electron regime, c...
New wafer-scale memristor integration advances prospects for brain-inspired AI chips
Nov 12, 2025 (SPX)
The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses, permitting vast information storage and processing within a compact space....
SoftBank tanks after $5.8-bn Nvidia stock sale
Nov 12, 2025 (AFP)
Analysts said the move was to free up cash to pay for massive investments in AI promised by SoftBank's charismatic founder Masayoshi Son, including in US megapr...
Reshaping Properties of Two Dimensional Janus Semiconductors with Light Enables Tunable Optical Devices
Nov 12, 2025 (SPX)
"In nonlinear optics, light can be reshaped to create new colors, faster pulses or optical switches that turn signals on and off," said Kunyan Zhang, a Rice doc...
Diraq progresses to new stage in DARPA drive for practical quantum computers
Nov 12, 2025 (SPX)
After completing Stage A, Diraq continues its work to develop a utility-scale quantum computer that offers greater economic value than its construction and runn...
Princeton's new quantum chip built for scale
Nov 12, 2025 (SPX)
"The real challenge, the thing that stops us from having useful quantum computers today, is that you build a qubit and the information just doesn't last very lo...
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