Alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs, such as spintronics, wouldn't find their way into production for at least another 10 years, Intel said this week in Taiwan.
A new class of materials invented by researchers at the University of Wollongong will make future gadgets work better and faster by tapping into the power of electrons.
The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology.
A potential replacement for Flash memory could be on sale within three years, with small start-up company Nanochip announcing a new device that will hold eight times as much data as flash memory, while having a cost per gigabyte of up to four times less.
The chipmaker demonstrates memory chip based on a concept it has been tinkering with for three decades.
Gartner analysts have taken out their crystal balls to come up with a list of ten predictions that will impact enterprise businesses over the next eight years.
Canadian scientists say they have invented a spintronic transistor, which uses the spin of electrons to store information. It could mark an important step in quantum computing.
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