Supercomputing 2008, Booth 1009 — With its sights set on colonizing the moon and eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA is calling on researchers to solve some of the most complex science and ...

Silicon Graphics Inc, pioneer in computerized special effects for movies, files for bankruptcy protection; agrees to give noteholders majority stake in company and cut $250 million in debt (M) By ...

Researchers have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step closer. Researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and ...

Silicon is so important for electronics and computing that it’s become synonymous with technology – even getting a valley named after it – but the stuff still has its flaws. Now, scientists have ...

Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future. When you ...

Whether it's our phones, cars, televisions, medical devices or even washing machines, we now have computers everywhere. Using bigger computers, we solve bigger problems like managing the operation of ...

A team of researchers has created an advanced version of silicon that could be used as the foundation for the next generation of computing. The new breakthrough technology is described as an extremely ...

Silicon has reigned supreme in electronics for the better part of a century, and now a new version might help extend its use into the future. Engineers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have ...