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IBM has demonstrated a prototype chip that packs approximately 100 billion transistors onto an area the size of a human fingernail, roughly double the density of its previous state-of-the-art announced in 2021. The advance could extend Moore’s Law for another 10 to 15 years, according to industry analysts. The chip uses a complementary field-effect transistor […]

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a fundamental shift from monolithic chip designs to heterogeneous systems built from chiplets, pre-designed blocks assembled into sophisticated system-in-packages. But existing single-die design tools are insufficient for the task, according to a detailed methodology published by Siemens EDA. “Heterogeneous chiplet technology has fundamentally transformed semiconductor design, enabling the efficient creation […]

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s first custom-designed inference processor, a chip built from the ground up for large language model workloads, marking a strategic shift into hardware for the AI company. “Jalapeño was designed from scratch around its deep understanding of LLM fundamentals, informed by its roadmap of models, kernels, serving systems, […]

As soon as August, a silver, helium-filled airship roughly 61 metres (200 feet) long will cross the Pacific to Japan, where it will park in the stratosphere and beam 5G connectivity directly to devices below. The craft is built by Sceye, a New Mexico-based company developing what is known as a high-altitude platform station (HAPS), […]

International law enforcement authorities, working with private technology companies, have disrupted a cybercrime “assembly line” that enabled criminals to steal millions of login credentials and collect more than US$47 million through ransomware and fraud. The operation, part of the ongoing Operation Endgame, targeted two widely used malware-as-a-service platforms, Amadey and StealC, in a coordinated takedown […]

A new US$500 million nonprofit called Intercept is taking aim at one of medicine’s most neglected problems: the common cold. Backed by Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, Bill Gates, Flu Lab, and Jane Street Capital traders, the initiative aims to prevent and eventually eliminate all respiratory viruses. “On average, people spend 5 percent of their […]

Most agentic AI pilot failures are not AI failures, they are architectural failures. That is the central argument behind a new framework by John Taschek, executive vice president and chief market strategy officer at Salesforce, who has laid out 12 rules for deploying AI agents in enterprise environments. Inspired by Edgar Codd’s 12 rules for […]

Google has integrated computer use capabilities directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, making the feature a native tool rather than a separate model. The move lets developers build agents that can see, reason about, and interact with software interfaces across desktop, browser, and mobile environments without switching between models. “Computer use is now a built-in tool […]

Researchers at Princeton University are using reinforcement learning and inverse design techniques to create radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) from scratch, producing chip layouts that outperform conventional designs and, in some cases, look nothing like what a human engineer would have built. RFICs are critical components for 5G networks, autonomous vehicles, satellite communications, and wireless infrastructure. […]

Google’s overhaul of the Play Store fee structure, cutting commissions from 30 percent to as low as 10 percent and opening the platform to third-party payment systems, takes effect in the US, UK, and European Economic Area on June 30, five days from today. The changes, announced on March 4 as part of a global […]