Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw ...

Tiny molecules that can think, remember, and learn may be the missing link between electronics and the brain. For more than ...

The GPU made its debut at CES alongside five other data center chips. Customers can deploy them together in a rack called the Vera Rubin NVL72 that Nvidia says ships with 220 trillion transistors, ...

Intel shared a lot of specs and big claims around its new Panther Lake chips, but what do all the numbers and specs mean for ...

Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) have opened new exciting possibilities for the rapid analysis of ...

There is a tendency to picture computers as cold, precise things, sealed away in clean rooms and humming quietly under desks.

A device smaller than a grain of dust may help unlock the kind of quantum computers people have only dreamed about. Built on ...

Cerebras’ giant chip and other advances in 2025 reflect a post-Moore’s-law shift toward parallel computing and broader AI accessibility.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype we look at the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025–and the year’s best music.