In the 1960s, physicists showed how light could interact with itself in intriguing ways thanks to a process known as second-harmonic generation. In the right kind of material, two photons of a certain ...

Details of the XPliant Packet Architecture are out, and the chips do indeed present a programmable answer to Broadcom's Trident switch chips and their 90% market share. We relayed rumors about Xpliant ...

Humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, smartphones, smart home devices, and even something as mundane as a TV remote or a coffee machine all share a quiet commonality. At the heart of most of this ...

The switches are not only programmable, they're re-programmable, making them available for future use cases, using the same device. “We’re expanding our set of switches based on silicon from Barefoot ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

AMSTERDAM, May 19 (Reuters) - The CEO of imec, one of the world's top semiconductor R&D firms, has said the industry needs to steer towards reconfigurable chip architectures if it wants to avoid ...

Tabula has what it calls a "groundbreaking architecture" where its chips can dynamically reconfigure themselves. Many former rivals, such as QuickSilver Technology, tried and failed to do the same ...

Explore the 2026 ARM vs x86 battle—comparing processor architecture, CPU performance, and energy efficiency to reveal which chip design leads modern computing innovation.

Arm’s speciality is general-purpose chips called central processing units ( CPU s). Its power-efficient designs have proved ...