MALTA - After several years of sluggish business, computer chip sales have been surging globally, especially in the Americas, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, an industry trade ...

Computer chips are everywhere. They power our smartphones, run our cars, and even manage our household appliances. With such intense demand, the race to build faster, more efficient chips never slows.

In 2019, IBM challenged Google's claim that Google's quantum chip solved a problem that would take a classical computer 10,000 years, saying the problem could be solved in two-and-a-half days ...

Google has unveiled its new chip, Willow, which outperforms current computer benchmarks. Google says the chip solves a 30-year hurdle and advances quantum computing for commercial uses.

About 15 years ago, A.I. researchers realized that specialized computer chips called graphics processing units, or GPUs, were an effective way of doing this kind of data analysis.

It’s called the single chip computer not because such a thing is a novelty in 2025, but because it has no need for the support chips which would have come with the original.