AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

The supply shortage of the RAM needed to build phones and PCs isn’t going away. But a few companies have a plan to solve it.

Driven by the AI boom, global computer memory prices have entered a record growth cycle, with DRAM increases outpacing gold ...

What if living organisms could perform some of the tasks handled by silicon chips? New research suggests fungal systems can exhibit memory-like electrical behavior, opening the door to unconventional, ...

Computer memory and storage have always followed the Law of Closet Space. No matter how much you have, you shortly discover that it isn’t enough. So it’s good news that scientists in Switzerland are ...