August 18, 2022
Engineers Fabricate a Chip-free, Wireless Electronic “Skin”
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals related to pulse, sweat, and ultraviolet exposure, without bulky chips or batteries.
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August 12, 2022
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Visits MIT to Celebrate Passage of CHIPS and Science Act
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren toured MIT.nano and held a roundtable with university leaders to discuss how the new CHIPS law could advance research and…
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July 29, 2022
Why Congress Just Joined the Semiconductor Arms Race
Matt Stieb | New York Magazine MIT professor Jesús del Alamo explains about how semiconductors work and why the CHIPS Act could impact our lives in the coming decade.
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July 28, 2022
The US Throws $52 Billion at Chips—but Needs to Spend It Wisely
Will Knight | Wired The CHIPS and Science Act wants to jump-start the domestic semiconductor industry, starting with manufacturing.
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July 28, 2022
New Hardware Offers Faster Computation for Artificial Intelligence, with Much Less Energy
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Engineers working on “analog deep learning” have found a way to propel protons through solids at unprecedented speeds.
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July 28, 2022
‘Artificial Synapse’ Could Make Neural Networks Work More Like Brains
Alex Wilkins | New Scientist Networks of nanoscale resistors that work in a similar way to nerve cells in the body could offer advantages over digital machine learning.
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July 22, 2022
Atlantic Quantum Emerges from MIT’s Engineering Quantum Systems Lab, Raises $9M Seed Funding to Make Large-Scale Quantum Computing a Reality
James Dargan | The Quantum Insider Atlantic Quantum, a developer of scalable quantum computers, announced a $9 million seed investment led by The Engine, the venture firm spun out…
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July 20, 2022
The Domestic Chip Manufacturing Industry
Ann Fisher | NPR All Sides Podcast Prof. Jesús del Alamo speaks with Ann Fisher of WOSU’s All Sides with Ann Fisher about the importance of supporting domestic chip manufacturing…
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July 11, 2022
A Programming Language for Hardware Accelerators
Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL Researchers created Exo, which helps performance engineers transform simple programs that specify what they want to compute into very complex programs…
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July 8, 2022
Physicists Discover a “family” of Robust, Superconducting Graphene Structures
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office MIT physicists have established twisted graphene as a new “family” of robust superconductors, each member consisting of alternating graphene layers,…
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