Copper cables face a phenomenon at high data rates at high data rates that necessitate wider wires and more power, ...

It might not be what you would normally call a ‘smart’ material, but copper is certainly helping to pack more intelligence on to the average microchip. The material is now being used by IBM, soon to ...

While you might not exactly be aware of it at the moment, your computer is making noise. For most, it’s a gentle hum. As time goes by, and its components grow older, this hum can get louder. And if ...

This persistant memory would compete with NRAM and MRAM which are planned new types of persistant nonvolatile random access computer memory. “In using readily available materials, we’ve provided a way ...

In 2015 -- now just over a year away -- the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), which is set out by the industry's top experts, predicts that the copper wiring that connects ...

At Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, I got the chance to see the development process for two prototype devices that could be an early look at what might be coming next for computers.

Four years ago, the networking industry was gearing up for massive uptake of copper-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) using 10GBase-T, but expectations were never fulfilled. Most network managers didn't ...

Openreach, the national broadband network infrastructure builder, has already begun to explore how, and when, it might be able to start to switch off its copper broadband delivery network, according ...