Computing Power

The development of glass-based substrates for electronics in datacentres and high-performance computing is the aim of a consortium gathered by German research institute Fraunhofer IZM (Fraunhofer Institute for reliability and micro-integration). “Due to its material properties, glass offers a promising basis for microelectronics – in particular, its high dimensional stability allows ultra-fine conductor tracks, even below 5μm as structure widths,” ...

IBM has announced a European quantum computer data centre at its facility in Ehningen, for companies, research institutions and government agencies. This will be its second, after a quantum data centre in New York. Scheduled to operate in 2024, the German site will have “multiple IBM quantum computing systems, each with more than 100 qubits”, said IBM. “The data centre ...

It’s all happening faster than anyone ever thought possible – tablets will overtake PCs the year after next, says IDC.

There was once a company which decided that making ASICs was all about using heavyweight computing power for IC design.

Recently, I met a former Ferranti Semiconductors guy, now CEO of Xintronix, Steve Cliffe.

If you go onto the Web-site of Montalvo Systems and click the ‘About Us’ button you read: ‘Montalvo Systems is a well funded fabless semiconductor start-up funded by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms’.