The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Heat has always been the quiet enemy inside electronics. Once temperatures climb much past 200 degrees Celsius, the memory ...

The market's knee-jerk response is understandable. Now take a step back and look more critically at what this new computing ...

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

A team at Monash University has recorded, for the first time, the atom-by-atom rearrangements that occur when data is written ...

So far, so futile. Both these approaches are doomed by their respective medium being orders of magnitude slower to access and ...

Large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually giant computer brains. Instead, they are effectively massive vector spaces in which the probabilities of tokens occurring in a specific order is ...

It’s one thing to create your own relay-based computer; that’s already impressive enough, but what really makes [DiPDoT]’s design special– at least after this latest video— is swapping the SRAM he had ...