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Gordon Moore passed away  on Friday, March 24th, 2023. His observation back in 1965 in an article to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Electronics magazine (Cramming more components onto integrated circuits) became the lighthouse for the whole electronic industry in the following 50 years. At the time of publishing …

At the turn of the century (2006) IBM launched a project to map the human brain as a starting point to create a “cognitive computer”. It was clear from the beginning that it was an impossible dream, yet the hope was that pursuing it would increase our knowledge of the computational structures …

A significant number of scientists, but not all, are convinced that if we were to replicate the neurones functionality and connectivity of a human brain in a machine we will get… a human brain. This means we will get the same characteristics generated by our brain, including intelligence in its …

For quite some time the “chip” business was restricted to very few companies that were able to invest huge capitals in the design and manufacturing and because of that huge investment required a big market to sell their products. That led to the design and production of “one-size-fits-all”, in other …

Today’s most advanced  chip technology is based on a 5nm (5 billionth of a meter) thickness of etching. For comparison the first Intel 4040 was using a 10µm technology (2,000 times “thicker”!). Going beyond that raises many issues that have led to the assumption of “close to impossible”. Going below …

Data Centres are growing in size and processing capacity to manage the increased size and flow of data. As the Clouds they are hosting are evolving to perform more processing intensive tasks and in particular the ones involved in artificial intelligence -training, inferencing- there is an interest for chips that …

Chips are small, probably that was one of the reasons to call then chips and not boulders in the first place …. An average chip stays on the tip of one of your fingernail and even the very large chips used as sensors in digital cameras can stay on the …

Intel has announced a new chip “Loihi”, a first of its kind, resulting from several years of research carried out in cooperation with Caltech, that can learn and evolve. It is based on a neuromorphic architecture, that is it mimics the brain and as the brain it can change its …

Chip manufacturers are at work to develop 3D structures that can support ever denser processing and storage capabilities. In February 2017 Toshiba has introduced the first 3D flash chip storage stacking 64 layers, and in April 2017 SK Hynix unveiled a 73 layer 256Gb 3D NAND memory. Yet, as industry …