Just because an invention is no longer practical for many applications does not mean it wasn’t a good invention at the time. My recent article about the von Neumann architecture received some quite ...

NextSilicon, the Israel-based startup whose intriguing software-defined hardware has been talked about in concept for years by the company, today unveiled what it said is the first Intelligent Compute ...

Samsung is claiming progress on the ages-old compute-memory bottleneck inherent in the classical von Neumann computing architecture. The company has announced what it said is the industry’s first High ...

As a result, eight decades later, engineers are still putting together computers based on this historical setup now known as von Neumann architecture after computing pioneer John von Neumann. It also ...

Unconventional computing is computing with novel chemical, living, and physical substrates, achieved by any of a wide range of totally uncommon techniques. While the general theory of computation ...

There are some problems that are simply too complex for even the most powerful of today’s computers, and researchers are trying to overcome the limits of traditional computer designs to enable ...

To create faster computers, the industry must take a major step back and re-examine choices that were made half a century ago. One of the most likely approaches involves dropping demands for ...