New Computer Chips May Help Fight Global Warming and Be Super-Fast
Existing chips are as good as they’ll get. Now scientists are perfecting versions that use much less power and handle lots more data.
The Spark: How Computer Chips May Soon Be Faster and Greener
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Digital activity uses a huge amount of electricity. And the semiconductors that make all that clicking possible are nearing the limit of efficiency, constrained by inescapable laws of science. Now researchers are racing to perfect new kinds of chips that use much less power and handle much more data.
On this episode of The Spark, we explain how the next generation of technology at the very heart of modern society could fight global warming while turbocharging the flow of data on all the electronics we use.