After months of spoon-feeding information on its curiously codenamed “Bonanza Mine” approach to blockchain technology, Intel has officially taken the first concrete, product-laden steps in the form of its Blockscale ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit). The announcement comes hot on the heels of several design wins, with cryptocurrency mining heavyweights Argo Blockchain, BLOCK (formerly known as…
Founded in 1957, Digital Equipment Corporation was a juggernaut… until it crashed in the 1990s. Partial view of Digital Alpha microprocessor. Jamo spingal, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Change is a constant in the computer business, and there is no better proof than Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as “DEC.” If you’ve never heard…
Think of them as master Lego builders, only at an atomic scale. Engineers at CU Boulder have taken a major step forward in combing advanced computer simulations with artificial intelligence to try to predict how electronics, like the transistors in your cell phone, will fail. The new research was led by physicist and aerospace engineer…