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 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.

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.

Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

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.

As if it wasn't enough that nerds control the world, now they want to conquer space, with Silicon Valley ‘celebs’ lining up to send their digitised DNA off to the final frontier.

The steadily-climbing unemployment rate in Silicon Valley has reached a shocking four-year high of 6.6 per cent.

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

Breakthrough using light removes the need for wires.

Nist researchers look forward to organic electronics.

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.