Category Archives: Hardware

Credit: Pooya Soltani, Author provided In a recent Premier League game, Manchester United went 2-0 up when striker Marcus Rashford ran on to a pass and slotted the ball past Liverpool’s goalkeeper, Alisson Becker. The game was then held up briefly while the “video referee” checked whether Rashford was ahead of the last defender, Joe…

In a universe of cloud computing, northern Virginia could be in a perpetual fog. Extra of the info facilities that feed the cloud are clustered within the area outdoors the nation’s capital than anyplace else on this planet. As cloud computing—which allows knowledge storage and different companies to be delivered over the web—continues its exponential…

Credit: Lanza et al. In recent years, engineers and computer scientists have created a wide range of technological tools that can enhance fitness training experiences, including smart watches, fitness trackers, sweat-resistant earphones or headphones, smart home gym equipment and smartphone applications. New state-of-the-art computational models, particularly deep learning algorithms, have the potential to improve these…

Ireland was once the darling of the data industry but now has a de facto moratorium on new centres. Every time we make a call on Zoom, upload a document to the cloud or stream a video, our computers connect to vast warehouses filled with servers to store or access data. Not so long ago,…

The input embedding pattern shows the fiber extruder being added to the hydrogel. Credit: Biohybrid and Organic Robotics Group, Carnegie Mellon University Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have created an open-source, commercially available fiber extruder to benefit future research with hydrogels and soft robotics. As their name suggests, hydrogels begin in liquid…

GaN-based E band module for broadband point-to-point data links over long distances in 6G mobile communications. Credit: Fraunhofer IAF 6G mobile communications is expected to pave the way for innovative applications such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and internet of things by 2030. This will require a much higher performance capability than that of the…

In a new study, researchers from TUS, Japan, proposed a fully connected scalable annealing processor that, when implemented in FPGA, can easily outperform a modern CPU in solving various combinatorial optimization problems in terms of speed and energy consumption. The proposed method achieves this using an “array calculator,” consisting of multiple coupled chips, and a…

The transistor-free compute-in-memory architecture permits three computational tasks essential for AI applications: search, storage, and neural network operations. Credit: Nano Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03169 Artificial intelligence presents a major challenge to conventional computing architecture. In standard models, memory storage and computing take place in different parts of the machine, and data must move from its…

Artistic rendering of how superconducting circuits that mimic synapses (connections between neurons in the brain) might be used to create artificial optoelectronic neurons of the future. Credit: J. Chiles and J. Shainline/NIST Scientists have long looked to the brain as an inspiration for designing computing systems. Some researchers have recently gone even further by making…