### Moore’s Law

The following is an excerpt from Byron Reese’s book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity. You…

### Bezos’s law signals it’s time to ditch the data center

According to "Bezos's law," a unit of computing power price is reduced by 50 percent approximately every three years. AppZero's Greg O'Connor looks at why the economic gap that favors cloud providers will only widen over time.…

### Thin film electronics may hold the key to human size health care

Sensors and other electronics will drive tremendous innovation in medical devices, building off the current momentum in fitness and wellness devices.…

### Moore’s law gives way to Bezos’s law

The future of cloud computing is the availability of more computing power at a much lower cost.…

### RIP, the server. It’s time to breathe the air of cloud connection

Today, running your business on private servers is on the same level of odd behavior as carrying scuba tanks to provide a private air supply.…

### With Moore’s Law receding, design is how we decide

Long gone are the days of megahertz madness. Now we live in a computing world in which we don't ask "how much more can I get?" but rather "how much do I really need?"…

### Why Moore’s Law doesn’t influence design these days: Less is “moore”

Technology cycles have been on a tear for decades, with each chip iteration bringing more capabilities at lower prices. But less can be more in tech products--and design is the way to balance that factor.…

### Step aside, transistor; It’s the vacuum tube’s turn to shine again

When a trio of engineers led by Bill Shockley built the first solid-state transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, they thought they had consigned the vacuum tube to oblivion. But vacuum tubes – or at least their underlying principles – may be set to make a resurgence.…

### How mobility is stressing the chip industry

Qualcomm can't find enough capacity to manufacture chips designed for mobile phones. These troubles will become more common as the physics that govern how we make semiconductors buckles under the demands of our increasingly mobile lives, where we demand low power and high performance.…

### IBM’s 3 big chip breakthroughs explained

IBM has made three breakthroughs that could help chips continue following Moore’s Law, resulting in more performance or memory at lower prices. These breakthroughs may also allow us to take advantage of new spectrum for mobile broadband and make better batteries.…

### For our sensor heavy future, IBM cooks up a new silicon brain

After a century of making tabulation machines IBM has come up with a new chip that marries our brain's architecture with silicon guts. The goal is to create a new style of computing aimed at making sense of big data without consuming a lot of power.…

### 2020 via time machine: chips, devices, & tech

At the IEEE Technology Time Machine Symposium last week I listened to the world’s leading academics, engineers, executives, and government officials project what the world will look like in 2020. The future brings technology together for everything from enhancing the human experience to improving environmental sustainability.…

### Stealthy chip startup’s technology is a big power play

Stealthy startup SuVolta has pioneered an improvement in the chip-manufacturing process that will help cut the power usage of semiconductors by half while maintaining their performance. The process, which it plans to license, changes a few of the ingredients used to make chips.…

### Question Everything: A New Processor For Big Data

We are moving from the Information Age to the Insight Age, and as part of that shift we need a compute architecture that will handle the storage and processing required all without requiring a power plant hooked up to every data center. What architecture will win?…

### Today in Cloud

Intel announced new chips yesterday, incorporating a new three-dimensional manufacturing process to fit more processing capability into a smaller space whilst consuming…

### Chip Makers Sacrifice Accuracy for Energy Efficiency

In a quest to make faster chips and deliver low-power computing, scientists have creating good-enough chips that instead of performing every calculation to its exact decimal point, are allowed to make mistakes. This field of computing could improve big data analysis, networking and even hearing aids.…

### Questions for the IT Industry’s Green Intentions in 2011

2011 is shaping up to be a year when some long-running green IT assertions may finally face their chance to prove themselves. Here are a few of the question I'll be asking this year as I track the green IT sector's progress.…