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IBM links two quantum chips with 80-centimetre cables
IBM researchers connected two quantum chips of 120 qubits each with four superconducting links of 80 centimetres. Quantum information came across correctly 99 times out of 100 on average. It is a step towards quantum computers built from separate modules.
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Free tools take the brakes off Nvidia graphics cards: up to twice as much AI computing power
Free open-source tools remove a brake that Nvidia built into the firmware of its GeForce graphics cards. For AI calculations, some cards become up to twice as fast. In practice the gain is smaller, and the tools are still experimental.
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Japanese researchers control five quantum bits in silicon at once, with almost no errors
Researchers at RIKEN in Japan controlled five quantum bits on a silicon chip at the same time, through one shared control line. They found the biggest source of errors and kept accuracy at around 99.9 per cent. That helps to build larger quantum computers.
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Tiny holes that slow down light make a small Japanese chip for optical fibre far more efficient
Japanese researchers built a component that turns electrical signals into light, using tiny holes that slow the light down. It is 0.3 millimetres long, runs on low voltage and sends up to 200 gigabits per second. The next step: losing less light along the way.
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Low-power brain implant recognises mental state from how brain regions work together
Researchers at EPFL have built a chip of 4 by 2 millimetres that measures how brain regions work together and so recognises concentration and emotional arousal. It uses very little power. The chip already works on recordings from people and in rats; patients are the next step.
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10-dollar light sensor from Cambridge can recognise substances in skin, food and plastic
Researchers at the University of Cambridge made a spectrometer on a chip of a few centimetres, for about 10 dollars. It recognises substances by the light they absorb. In one volunteer it tracked blood sugar without a finger prick; the next step is testing in more people.
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Japan gives the green light: TSMC will make the most advanced AI chips in Kumamoto
The Japanese government has approved the new plan for TSMC's second chip factory in Kumamoto. From the end of 2028, 3-nanometre chips for AI will come off the line there, for the first time in Japan. The factory will, however, start smaller than first planned.
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AI model Maxwell makes existing software faster while it runs
The Israeli company doubleAI presents Maxwell, an AI that rewrites programs while they run so that they go faster, without touching the source code. According to the company, one customer's computing costs fell by 67 per cent.
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d-Matrix splits the work of an AI model across two kinds of chips for faster answers
At a major data centre conference, the American chip company d-Matrix showed how an AI model answers faster when ordinary graphics chips and its own chips each do the work they are good at. The company now also supplies complete computing clusters.
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Chinese company Sugon shows computing cluster with 100,000 home-grown AI chips
China's Sugon is showing its Sugon 8000: a computing cluster that links 100,000 computing cards made in China. The system combines AI with classic supercomputing and, according to Sugon, has already run ten research projects.
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Working AI server rack lets chips talk through light, with the optics right next to the chip
At a major data centre trade show in the US, three tech companies showed a working server rack in which chips talk through light, with the light components right next to the computing chip. That could make AI data centres much more energy-efficient. Large-scale production is next.
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Brain-inspired chip keeps up with a million measurements per second from a fusion reactor
An American team tested a superconducting chip that works like a network of brain cells. It processed measurements from a fusion reactor as fast as they came in. Next year, a chip ten times larger will monitor the reactor itself.
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Printed brain-inspired chip dissolves in six minutes after use
Researchers in China have printed a flexible chip that, like our brain, calculates and remembers in the same place. It recognises handwritten digits almost as well as ordinary software and dissolves in six minutes after use.
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AI agents find two candidate magnets for a new kind of computer memory
More than ninety Claude Opus 5.5 agents at Vals AI spent three days calculating magnets for future computer memory. They arrived at two candidates, including a substance from 1999. It remains calculations only: nobody has measured the predicted properties yet.
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European physics prize for the discoverers of a third kind of magnetism
Three physicists receive the Europhysics Prize 2026 for altermagnetism: magnets that attract nothing from outside, yet sort electrons like an ordinary magnet. This opens the way to smaller, faster and more energy-efficient computer memory.
