Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
“Lock-free” parallel algorithms may match performance of more complex “wait-free” algorithms.
Cleverer management of the local memory banks known as ‘caches’ could improve computer chips’ performance while reducing their energy consumption.
Device may be used to quickly detect signs of sepsis, other inflammatory diseases.
Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation.
A new video standard enables a fourfold increase in the resolution of TV screens, and an MIT chip was the first to handle it in real time.
Record-setting ‘optical phased arrays’ could lead to better laser rangefinders, smaller medical-imaging devices and even holographic TVs.
New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.
System developed at MIT could combine power harvested from light, heat and vibrations to run monitoring systems.
The data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements.