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.

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

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

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

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

From the moon landing, to the rise of Apple and Google, we rate the most inspiring technology moments in history.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

Scientists reckon they may have found a way of controlling quantum states for use in optoelectronic chips

Rugged and durable, but overall it’s a bit pricey

There's a lot of fake news going around about the upcoming GPUish chip called the GT300. Let's clear some air on this Larrabee-lite architecture.

The end of Moore's law may happen sooner than we first thought, according to two physicists who have predicted the end of rapid computing advancement.

AMD gave Computex visitors a bit of a treat this morning in Taipei at its press conference by showing off the world's first demo of DX11 graphics silicon, which is suspected to be the forthcoming RV870 GPU

The 3000km race outback race from Darwin to Adelaide will feature a number of green vehicles, but none as high profile as Internode CEO Simon Hackett's Tesla all-electric machine

The tiny SheevaPlug PC is not much bigger than two decks of playing cards and aims to spawn a new breed of always-on apps.

Synergy software provides handset support for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB and eGPS.