IEEE Spectrum

• Optical Interposers Could Start Speeding Up AI in 2025 January 22, 2025
  Fiber-optic cables are creeping closer to processors in high-performance computers, replacing copper connections with glass. Technology companies hope to speed up AI and lower its energy cost by moving optical connections from outside the server onto the motherboard and then having them sidle up alongside the processor. Now tech firms are poised to go even […]
  Laura Hautala
• AI Workloads Spur Bigger Memory Drives January 22, 2025
  At the SC24 supercomputing conference held in November in Atlanta, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (the actor who played The Mountain in Game of Thrones), deadlifted a custom barbell weighed down by 453 kilograms (1000 pounds) of solid state drives. The data stored in those drives totaled just over 280 petabytes.“Without question, this is the most data […]
  Dina Genkina
• It’s a SNaP: New Technique Paves Way for Scalable Therapeutic Nanoparticle Manufacturing January 21, 2025
  This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In a significant advancement for the field of drug delivery, researchers have developed a new technique that addresses a persistent challenge: scalable manufacturing of nanoparticles and microparticles. This innovation, led by Nathalie M. Pinkerton, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at […]
  Michael W. Richardson
• A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War January 21, 2025
  In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the United States did not have a global ocean-surveillance capability. Adding to the alarm was the emergence of a new Kirov class of nuclear-powered […]
  Ivan Amato