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Chipmaking
Silicon returns to Silicon Valley
AI has returned chipmaking to the heart of computer technology, says Shailesh Chitnis
- Putting the silicon back in the valley: AI has returned chipmaking to the heart of computer technology
- Shrink to fit: The semiconductor industry faces its biggest technical challenge yet
- The names are meaningless: Node names do not reflect actual transistor sizes
- Getting to one trillion: How to build more powerful chips without frying the data centre
- A Cambrian moment: AI has propelled chip architecture towards a tighter bond with software
- OK (analogue) computer: Researchers are looking beyond digital computing
- The relentless innovation machine: The end of Moore’s law will not slow the pace of change
- Chipmaking: Sources and acknowledgments
2024
Technology Quarterly
Watching the watchers
Tools of the spy trade have changed and so has the world in which they are used, says Shashank Joshi
Technology Quarterly
A new prescription
AIs will make health care safer and better, reports Natasha Loder. It may even get cheaper too
Technology Quarterly
Where the internet lives
Users of the internet can ignore its physical underpinnings. But for technologies like artificial intelligence and the metaverse to work, others need to pay attention, argues Abby Bertics
2023–2000
Technology Quarterly
In search of forever
Slowing, let alone reversing, the process of ageing was once alchemical fantasy. Now it is a subject of serious research and investment, Geoffrey Carr reports
Technology Quarterly
The most personal technology
Demand for, and expectations of, in vitro fertilisation are growing. The technology is struggling to keep up, write Catherine Brahic and Sacha Nauta
Technology Quarterly
The ultimate supply chains
One of the foundations of modernity is about to be transformed, reports Hal Hodson