18,000 reasons it’s so hard to build a chip factory in America

PHOENIX — The computer chip factories rising from an empty expanse of the Sonoran Desert test the concept of immensity. The ...

Making computer chips more brain-like could cut AI energy demands

As artificial intelligence platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot go mainstream, power bills from their ...
Time

Computer Chips in Our Bodies Could Be the Future of Medicine. These Patients Are Already There

Flight cuts to hit 40 busiest U.S. airports due to government shutdown, computer chips in our bodies could be the future of medicine, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x It's been a long time since ...
The New York Times

Why Diamonds Are a Computer Chip’s New Best Friend

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say. Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity ...

A Growing U.S. Tech Hub Needs Workers. Colleges Try to Keep Up.

The success of efforts to turn Phoenix into a dominant center of semiconductor manufacturing may hinge on efforts to train ...

Mini-fridges on a nanoscale? New cooling technique could make computer chips more powerful

As more devices get piled onto computer chips to increase processing power capacity, heat generation becomes increasingly ...