Feb 28, 2024 · Engineers are moving away from building an entire microprocessor on a single piece of silicon — the monolithic “system on a chip” — and towards multi-chip modules (MCMs).

In a compelling book that explains a very complicated industry in digestible fashion, Miller details the vicissitudes of the chip business, both in the US and in the Asian countries that dominate …

May 30, 2023 · In Taiwan, more than 70 sites are serving Apple, mainly making various chips, high-end chip substrates, printed circuit boards and premium camera lenses, as well as …

Nov 20, 2024 · “This is not science fiction,” declared Jensen Huang, boss of chip giant Nvidia, in June, referring to the use of AI to instruct robots to carry out real world tasks.

Control over modern-day chokepoints – such as the US dollar, advanced microchip technology and critical energy supply chains – has become the key to geopolitical power in this century.

With accessible and “illuminating” (Chris Miller, author of Chip War) writing, Scheyder shows the human toll of this war and explains why recycling and other newer technologies have struggled …

Jul 30, 2025 · Increased chip density has another unwanted effect: heat. About two-fifths of the energy used by an AI data centre stems from cooling chips and equipment, according to …

In Material World, Ed Conway travels the globe - from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe, to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan, to the eerie green pools where lithium …

Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

Synopsis In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human …