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

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..

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.

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.

Get your head around the new range of Intel desktop silicon, including the new Nehalem-based Core i5 and i7 chips.

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace has made IT giant Hewlett Packard its latest target..

The announcement of a pair of 2GHz dual-core processors from ARM has drawn speculation over a new chip war with Intel in the netbook space, despite the fact that products based on the chips are not likely to appear for at least another year.

See Modern Warfare 2 gameplay footage. Also: Windows 7 Media Center, why Lewis Hamilton's McLaren is so good off the starting grid.

Nvidia has confirmed that its already much-maligned Fermi GPU based graphics cards won't be seeing the light of day in 2009.

Xerox is claiming a major breakthrough in the field of printable circuitry with a new form of 'silver ink' that could allow electronics to be produced more cheaply and flexibly..

A nanotechnology design breakthrough could make faster, cheaper processors through the use of DNA structures.

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is climbing on board a new browser project known as 'Rockmelt.'.

A new processor that harnesses 1 billion aluminum atoms is being hailed as a breakthrough in the road to the much-hyped quantum computer

Rumours of a microcode update that will lock down cores in AMD's new processors have been thoroughly refuted by the company.