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Designing chips with the help of artificial intelligence. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Artificial intelligence accelerates the search for new chip materials

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A new artificial intelligence system scans a vast space of chemical combinations and suggests gallium-based semiconductor materials with desirable electronic properties. The researchers emphasize that the materials still require experimental validation, but the method
Two-dimensional materials are considered one of the most promising directions for improving computer chips, but researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have found that some of them are unsuitable due to an underestimated physical effect. The study also points to possible alternatives. Credit: Vienna University of Technology, TU Wien.

A tiny atomic gap could change the map of 2D materials for future chips

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TU Wien research published in Science points to a fundamental limitation in the interface between 2D materials and insulating layers in advanced transistors
Optical communication. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The computer of the next century: This is how we imagined the photonic revolution in 1997, and what has really happened since then

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A historical article by Avi Blizovsky from 1997 about optical computers, in a restored and updated version, with a look back at the place of photonics in modern computing.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Davos 2026 conference. Photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum

The “five-layer cake” of artificial intelligence

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google DeepMind CEO and other executives described the different needs of each layer - from infrastructure to applications.
Vera Rubin with old globes. Credit: Photograph by Mark Godfrey, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. From Wikimedia

Vera Rubin, the Jewish-American astronomer who inspired NVIDIA's new platform?

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At CES 2026, NVIDIA introduced a new generation of data centers; the choice of name is a tribute to a scientist whose measurements provided crucial evidence for the existence of dark matter
Prof. Christian Meyer presents the multi-million-unit neuromorphic computer at the TSMC conference in Amsterdam. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Narrowing the energy efficiency gap between the brain and artificial intelligence

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At the 2025 TSMC Europe OIP conference in Amsterdam, Prof. Christian Meyer from TU Dresden presented SpiNNaker-2 – a giant neuromorphic computer, based on event processing and thin-edge hardware, designed to run artificial intelligence models in real time.
Neuromorphic computer. From the study.

The monkey whose brain was copied into a computer – and is undermining the global balance of power

Chinese neuromorphic system with over two billion neurons simulates a macaque brain, bypasses export restrictions through architectural innovation—and combines neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and geopolitics
SuperLimbs. Photography: Erik Ballesteros and Harry Asada

"Nahum Takum"-style robotic legs may help astronauts on the moon get up from falls

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New MIT system called SuperLimbs may help astronauts conserve energy and extend missions on the moon
MIT researchers have discovered hidden magnetic properties in multilayer electronic material by analyzing polarized neutrons with the help of neural networks

Using artificial intelligence to reveal magnetism

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In the photo - Prof. Shahar Kotinsky (left) with the doctoral student Louis Daniel. Photo: Rami Shloush, Technion Spokesperson

Researchers at the Technion and the Tower Jazz company have developed a technology that adapts commercial transistors to the age of artificial intelligence

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An innovative computer chip, the size of which is smaller than a 10-cent coin, helps miniaturized drones navigate their way through space. [Image courtesy of the researchers]

An improved chip helps bee-sized drones navigate through space

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Technology for significantly reducing the size of transistors - which will allow a larger number of components to be compressed into one piece of silicon. Illustration: pixabay.

IBM introduces methods to further miniaturize chips using ultraviolet light

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Intel has invented a production stream of spin qubits based on its 300mm process technology that uses isotopically pure wafers like this one. Credit: Intel.

Intel is testing silicon "spin qubits" to realize quantum computing

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Adaptation of the cover image appearing in the journal Analytical Chemistry. Source: Courtesy of the Technion Spokesperson.

Researchers have developed a tiny diagnostic device characterized by high sensitivity to disease markers

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Illustration: Courtesy of MIT.

"Wood on a chip"

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In five years will it be possible to shrink a laboratory to the size of a sensor? In the photo: a silicon wafer developed by IBM to sort particles found in body fluids in order to enable early detection of diseases. Source: IBM.

IBM reveals five technological innovations that will change our lives in the next five years

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super chip Photo: shutterstock

Researchers have made a breakthrough in developing a tiny and affordable spectrometer made from a piece of glass

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Prof. Luca Bennini, University of Bologna and ETH at the ChipEx 2015 conference. Photo: Kobi Kantor

Prof. Luca Bennini, University of Bologna and ETH ZURICH: The sensors must be designed to be energy efficient

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Prof. Mark Horowitz at the ChipEx 2014 conference. Photo: Kobi Kantor

Prof. Mark Horowitz from Stanford "We must plan the infrastructure of the Internet of Things so that it is secure and takes care of privacy from the ground up"

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A computer chip consisting of a substrate of cellulose nanofibers is placed on top of a leaf. [Image: Yei Hwan Jung, Device Nanoengineering Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison]

A semiconductor chip composed of wood

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A tattoo-like sticker for monitoring blood sugar. Photo: American Chemical Society.

A tattoo to monitor blood sugar levels - will save the need for injections

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Lung-on-a-chip mimics the microstructures of tissues with multiple airways. In this image, colorants flow in three different vertical paths separated from each other by transparent membranes (shown by the dashed rectangle). [Courtesy: RTI International]

Lung-on-a-chip

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The human brain as a chip. Illustration: shutterstock

IBM announced the chip that mimics the brain

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Prof. Alex Fish, head of the nanoelectronics track at the Faculty of Engineering in Bar Ilan

A chip lab currently being built at Bar-Ilan University will help improve the design of "systems on a chip" for Israeli chip companies

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

ChipEx2014 Summary: Bitcoin Mining Using 20nm Chips, The End of Moore's Law and the Internet of Things

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Chips. Illustration: shutterstock

A hardware engineer should be multidisciplinary today

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Cognitive chips: shutterstock illustration

Silicon following the human brain: IBM unveils cognitive computer chips

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Reading letters directly from the subject's mind. Photo: Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

The computer that reads letters directly from the brain

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Chips that interface with the brain. Photo: shutterstock

The chips played the cognitive aspect of the brain and will help the disabled

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A miniaturized IBM component with a frequency of one millimeter. PR photo

IBM has developed one transceiver component for millimeter wave communication and radar applications

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Prof. Avi Friedman - University of Rochester and the Technion

"Seeing the end of the race for faster and cheaper chips that have driven the world for decades"

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Minister of Science, Technology and Space Yaakov Perry. From Wikimedia Commons

Ahead of the CHIPEX 2013 conference: Minister Perry: We must continuously invest in the education of the younger generation and encourage continuous innovation in every organization

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Helmut Redinger, Atos. Photo: Avi Blizovsky, at the Savit 2013 exhibition in Hanover

The Internet of Things is already here

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A technology that is expected to improve the quality of life of the blind. An experimental model of the chip at the center of an experimental system. Photo: Itay Nebo

see through the chips

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Sheets of carbon atoms one-atom thick are rolled to form a carbon nanotube - ten thousand times smaller than the thickness of a human hair - which can be used to make transistors inside chips. [Courtesy: IBM Research]

IBM announces a breakthrough in the field of chips: carbon chips

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Prof. Yoram Dagan, Tel Aviv University

the electron spin

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Fast graphene transistor. Illustration: IBM

Carbon-based transistors will increase the memory of mobile devices

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football. Illustration: Fernhofer Institute

Watch a soccer game from the point of view of the ball

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The smallest bit of memory. Illustration: IBM

Scientists at IBM managed to create the smallest memory chip in the world using only 12 atoms

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A quantum photonic chip. Illustration: University of Bristol in the UK

A photonic chip for the development of quantum processors

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Robert Noyce. From Wikipedia

The Three Revolutions of Robert Noyce

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3D chips will be possible thanks to a glue developed by IBM and XNUMXM. Image: IBM

IBM and 3M will develop an electronic adhesive that will make it possible to create XNUMXD computer chips

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Trisomy 21 (chromosome number 21 appears 3 times) which characterizes Down syndrome

chipping (of genes)

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Detection of bacteria on an electrical surface. Image courtesy of IBM

IBM scientists have applied methods to produce computer chips to build a polymer that identifies and destroys antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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Scanning tunneling macroscopic image of organic furrows. The different colors represent different directions of the spin. Source: CFN

Organic compounds as electrical components

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Color rendering of a scanning electron microscope image of a programmable nanoprocessor superimposed on a schematic architecture of a nanoprocessor circuit

The first ever functional nanoprocessor

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Diagram (left) and scanning electron microscope images of nanolasers grown directly on a silicon surface

Preparation of nanolasers attached to silicon

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Ronan Benzion, Vice President of Applied Materials Worldwide and CEO of Applied Materials Israel

Chip fault detection technology developed in Israel will enable rapid mass production of 22 nm chips

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Senior Vice President of IBM, Dr. Bernard Meyerson

The prediction of the vice president of IBM: computers with self-capacity for hardware changes, three-dimensional transistors and handling of unstructured information

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IBM technician Aisha Dent tests the world's fastest processor built at IBM New York. At the heart of the zEnterprise system is a chip capable of operating at a peak speed of 5.2 GHz. Public relations photo - IBM

More than 30 scientists and engineers at IBM laboratories in Israel participated in the development of the fastest processor in the world

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