The Good, the Bad, and the Weird: 3 Directions for Moore’s Law

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GlobalFoundries has dropped out, TSMC is thriving, and DARPA sees another way forwardul.listicle.SerifType { font-family: "Georgia", serif; margin: 1em 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; list-item-decoration: none; } h3.listicle-item-hed a { color: #d80404!important; } Photo: TSMC Silicon Gold Mine: Unlike GlobalFoundries, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. sees profit in following Moore’s Law.…
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November 1918: The First World War Ends

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The war began the industrial revolution of warfare, of which the single most important development was the synthesis of ammonia Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford Few 100-year anniversaries resonate so loudly as November’s marking of the end of the world’s first truly global armed conflict. The war’s unspeakable carnage scarred the memory of…
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The IoT Needs a New Set of Eyes

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Cameras for the Internet of Things will have to be fast, cheap, and powerful—and might not look like cameras at all Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford The rise of computer vision has given us robot chefs and cameras that detect gas flares in fuel production. It’s also led to an increase in connected…
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3D Printed Graphene Aerogel Offers Highest-Ever Capacitance for a Supercapacitor

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3D printing technique could lead to revolution in fabrication of supercapacitorsAfter what has seemed a bit of a lapse in the timeline of their development, graphene-enabled supercapacitors may be poised to make a significant advances. Researchers at the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) have…
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Building Smartphone Antennas That Play Nice Together

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3D manufacturing can defeat the interference problem inside smart devices.article-detail aside.inlay .sb-hed, article-detail aside.inlay h3, article-detail aside.inlay .sb-list-subhead { color: #ee008c; } .article-detail aside.inlay { border-color: #ee008c; } Illustration: Mark Montgomery The problem has bedeviled designers for decades: How do you squeeze more and more antennas into smaller and smaller…
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Robotic Raven Gains Altitude

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Maryland student’s research advances pioneering micro air vehicle Inspired by the beauty and flying ability of birds, Leonardo da Vinci strived centuries ago to create a human-powered flapping-wing flying machine. But his designs, which da Vinci explored in his Codex on the Flight of Birds, were never developed in any…
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