By Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have become the first to combine a quantum processor with memory that can be used to store instructions and data. This achievement in quantum computing replicates a similar milestone in conventional computer design from the 1940s.

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By Liz Tay
US researchers have successfully assembled a tiny processor from nanometre-scale components to perform basic arithmetic and logical functions. Harvard University’s Charles M. Lieber and his team built 960μm2 (square micrometre) ‘logic tiles’ that could perform adder, subtractor, multiplexer, demultiplexer and clocked D-latch functions.

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by Ben Hardwidge
IBM has revealed that graphene can’t yet fully replace silicon inside CPUs, as a graphene transistor can’t actually be completely switched off.
In an interview for a forthcoming Custom PC feature about chip-building materials, Yu-Ming Lin from IBM Research - Nanometer Scale Science and Technology told us that ‘graphene as it is will not [...]

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Researchers have devised a theoretical quantum computer that could function even if one in four quantum bits (qubits) were missing. With scientists struggling to build devices as large as three qubits, the new method could bring future applications closer by lowering the engineering requirements of a functional machine.
University of Queensland physicist Thomas Stace worked with [...]

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An international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University have demonstrated a molecular circuit that can evolve continuously to solve complex problems that challenge today’s supercomputers.
The massively parallel circuit contains a layer of molecular switches (monolayer) that simultaneously interact in a manner similar to the information processing performed by the neurons in the human [...]

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Some laws are made to be broken, and others are made to be followed. A team of IBM Researchers in collaboration with two Swiss partners are looking to keep one law in particular alive and well for another 15 years: Moore’s Law. The law states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively [...]

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A project that aims to revolutionise the design of technologies for supporting research has been awarded a grant of 1.7 million (about $2.6 million) by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the RCUK Digital Economy programme.
The multidisciplinary project, entitled PATINA (Personal Architectonics of Interfaces to [...]

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By Cade Metz
Google says it has developed a kind of quantum computer capable of identifying objects that appear in digital photos and videos. According to the company, the system outperforms the classical algorithms running across its current network of worldwide data centers.
Hartmut Neven, Google technical lead manager for image recognition, recently unveiled the company’s ongoing [...]

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Eco-friendly 3D microchips, being developed by a clutch of cutting-edge research labs, are likely to boost computing power 10-fold, consuming negligible energy. They are being developed jointly by IBM Research Lab, EPFL and ETH Zurich, the twin Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.
The project, under the leadership of EPFL’s John R. Thome’s (Lausanne), aims to develop [...]

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NVIDIA’s next generation CUDA architecture, code named “Fermi” is the most advanced GPU computing architecture ever built. Join us for a live webinar to learn about the new Tesla GPU Compute solutions built on Fermi and the dramatic performance capabilities they offer customers who are tackling the most difficult, compute-intensive problems. In addition [...]

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Intel Corp. is still exploring the future use of 3-D devices based on through-silicon vias (TSVs), but the company said that it has still not found the right application or “product intercept” for the technology.
Right now, chip makers are shipping limited 3-D devices based on TSVs, mainly CMOS image sensors, MEMS, and, to some degree, [...]

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IBM officials are saying that they plan to continue manufacturing and selling its Cell processor, refuting rumors circulating on the Internet that the technology was being killed.
The future of the Cell processor been the topic of speculation on the Web since a Nov. 19 report from the online German Web site Heise Online quoted an [...]

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By Paul Krill
“Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous programming and immutability.
Discussed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles today, the blueprint for the two languages will feature compilers as [...]

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Femtocell baseband chip vendor Percello Ltd. (Ra’anana, Israel) is planning to demonstrate 16 simultaneous calls over its PRC6500 chipset at the Femtocells America conference, November 16 to 17, 2009, in San Diego.
The PRC6500 is, which offers the capacity and speed required for enterprise-grade applications. PRC6500, the second product in Percello’s Aquilo chip family, supports 16 [...]

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The smartphone arena is an ever changing mass of molding parts and software that keeps geeks on their toes. Even though my iPhone 3G is only a year and a half old, the Droid I just picked up today (get used to it…I’m going to talk about it a whoooole lot) is many times faster [...]

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By Chris Lee, Ars Technica
One of the ever-present trends in electronics is that stuff gets smaller. Although it doesn’t get much attention, the fact that electronic features can be scaled continuously in size down to something very close to the single atom level is an important reason why electronic devices are still king. The pretenders [...]

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by R. Colin Johnson
Graphene could carry nearly 1,000 times more current and operate at temperatures more than 10 times cooler than conventional copper interconnects below 22-nanometer line widths, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The speed (electron mobility) of graphene has been touted as better than copper, but the Georgia Tech data on [...]

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Researchers at IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and the University of Ghent (Belgium) are claiming a major breakthrough in optical processing and thus all optical routing.
They have demonstrated repulsive and attractive nanophotonic forces, depending on the spatial distribution of the light used, and suggest the results might have major consequences for high data rate communications and optical [...]

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Quantum computers have inched closer to reality after the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers demonstrated the ability to read and write individual quantum bits using a combination of microwaves and polarized lasers.
The researchers said this week they are now attempting to develop their prototype into a working quantum computer.
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Quantum computing has the potential to easily crack current cryptography systems, simulate chemical and nanochemical quantum systems, and speed up the search for solutions of certain types of math problems called NP Complete problems. Many have raced to create the world’s first quantum processor.
In 2007 D-Wave, a Canadian firm, claimed to have created the [...]

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