This AI designed an 843-part computer (and it booted on the first try)

Although the AI didn't select the components or board layout, its assistance with routing potentially saved engineers weeks of work.
Purdue University

New personal computer design wins Microsoft competition

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two Purdue University industrial designers won a grand prize at an international competition co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. for a new personal computer design that may change ...
Futurism

New Molecular Mechanical Computer Design is 100 Billion Times More Energy Efficient

The trend for computing, and for technology in general, really consists of just one word: Smaller. Previously, technology that could fit on your desk was the rage. Then it became tech that fit in your ...
NextBigFuture

MEMS Version of Intel 4004 Chip Could be Made to Prove Nanomechanical Computer Designs

Ralph Merkle, Robert Freitas and collaborators have shown that using only links and rotary joints a Turing-complete computational system can be created. A version of this design could be built using ...
PC World

Moving past PCs: Government lab dabbles in quantum computers and brain-like chips

Rethinking conventional computer designs, which are decades old, the U.S. Department of Energy has set its sights on creating systems that could supplant today’s PCs and servers. The Los Alamos ...
EurekAlert!

Crowdsourced RNA designs outperform computer algorithms, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford researchers say

PITTSBURGH—An enthusiastic group of non-experts, working through an online interface and receiving feedback from lab experiments, has produced designs for RNA molecules that are consistently more ...
NextBigFuture

Molecular mechanical computer design 100 billion times more energy efficient than best conventional computer

Ralph Merkle, Robert Freitas and others have a theoretical design for a molecular mechanical computer that would be 100 billion times more energy efficient than the most energy efficient conventional ...