A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

The boom in AI data center building has caused a shortage of memory chips which are also crucial for electronics like ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

One of the biggest impacts of Apple's switch from Intel to its own M-series silicon -- debuting with the M1 in the 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini -- is faster, more stable, and more energy ...

A hybrid computer uses rotating mechanical beams for memory and electrical contacts for logic, performing reprogrammable computation through physical motion in environments where conventional ...

A research team at Fudan University in Shanghai has achieved a breakthrough in the study of a class of magnetic materials that could help pave the way for faster and more energy-efficient computer ...