The following is an excerpt from Byron Reese’s book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity. You…
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Voices in AI – Episode 42: A Conversation with Jem Davies
In this episode, Byron and Jem discuss machine learning, privacy, ethics, and Moore’s law. Byron Reese: Hello, this is “Voices in AI,”…
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Voices in AI – Episode 39: A Conversation with David Brin
In this episode Byron and David discuss intelligence, consciousness, Moore’s Law, and an AI crisis. Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI…
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IoT and the Principle of Resource Constraints
Technology may be fast-moving but some concepts have remained stable for decades. Not least the principle of resource constraints. Simply put, we…
Read MoreBezos’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.…
Read MoreThin 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.…
Read MoreMoore’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.…
Read MoreRIP, 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.…
Read MoreWith 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?"…
Read MoreWhy 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.…
Read MoreWhy Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron are merging to become a $29B company
Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron are merging to become a $29 billion chip equipment maker as the semiconductor industry undergoes a radical shift. Here's what's behind the deal.…
Read MoreStep 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.…
Read MoreHow 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.…
Read MoreSuVolta gets $17.6M to make power-sipping chips
Bright Capital, KPCB, August Capital and NEA have contributed to a $17.6 million funding round in SuVolta, a process technology company. SuVolta doesn’t design chips; it has come up with a novel way to manufacture transistors in a way that makes them use less power.…
Read MoreIBM’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.…
Read MoreFor 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.…
Read More2020 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.…
Read MoreStealthy 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.…
Read MoreQuestion 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?…
Read MoreToday 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…
Read MoreChip 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.…
Read MoreQuestions 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.…
Read MoreLogitech Revue Google TV Teardown Reveals Netbook At Heart
Want to know how one of the first Google TV devices looks like on the inside? Well, you're in luck: iFixit just published a Logitech Revue teardown, revealing that the hardware that makes Google TV work isn't really all that different from a plain old netbook.…
Read MoreWant Moore’s Law for Batteries? Go Find An Asteroid
If you want to find a Moore's Law type improvement for batteries, "you've got to go to an asteroid and come back with some new materials," says Quallion President Paul Beach.…
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