What happens when multiple-core processors are no longer sufficient for our demands? Stuart Andrews looks at the future of CPUs.

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

World's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser.

New technology needed to maintain current pace of development.

Intel unloaded a swag of new Penryn-class CPUs at CES today. Zara Baxter explores the new platform and what it means for your PC.

Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

Princeton boffins tout advantages of graphene.

Although the future for polymer electronics looks bright, theres inevitably a cloud on the horizon. Its to do with size. While there would be some definite advantages in making computer chips out of p

Aims to repurpose around three million discarded silicon wafers yearly.

Photonics project hits new benchmark.

Low leakage technology reaches Asic processors.

Silicon Color bought for undisclosed sum.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Analysts at Gartner have got all excited about the fact that carbon chips are now ready for mass production.

Developers see the future of the Terraflop server processor with 20MB of memory and frickkin’ silicon lasers.

Web search company Google Inc. said on Wednesday it plans to partner with U.S. space agency NASA on space research and to build a new campus at the agency's research center in the heart of Silicon Valley.

We’ve seen products like Silicon Memory’s ClearLight range of portable hard drives before, yet the ClearLight has some of the most solid yet attractive plastic housing we’ve reviewed.

Israel is renowned for pilgrimages but one of its better kept secrets is its booming high-tech industry. James Morris finds out more. If you were asked to pick the world's leading

Scientists are betting on a new high tech material, which is among the strongest and thinnest known materials in the universe

Physicists have confirmed the existence of bismuth telluride, a material that promises to push aside silicon in the manufacture of faster and more efficient computer chips using a process known as Spintronics