Gil Kalai is not the only researcher who defends the impossibility of achieving quantum supremacy , but he is one of those who do so with more vehemence. This renowned Israeli mathematician who teaches at Yale ensures that we will never achieve this achievement because as the number of states of a... Read more

The SSDs have revolutionized the storage segment, and have become their own right in one of the best ways to revitalize any PC or laptop. Its evolution is constant, and now a new technology appears that promises many advantages and, of course, a notable disadvantage. That technology is none other than PLC (Penta... Read more

We often engage in technological debates without taking into account that the terms we use can be the source of some confusion, and it is always good to return to the principles and clearly establish what certain terms we use very often mean. This is the case of the terms SoC and... Read more

The clues that Huawei has been leaving during these last days anticipated that today it would present its new SoC for its high-end smartphones. And so it has been. The new Kirin 990 has arrived, and, on paper, looks really good. In its manufacture, the Chinese company uses the advanced 7 nm FinFET Plus integration... Read more

150 years later, Corning headquarters is still in the state of New York. In the small city that gives its name to the company. Much has changed since his early work with headlights, mirrors and telescopes. Now Corning is among the largest companies in the world, with more than 30,000 employees and... Read more

Intel still had “an ace up its sleeve” after the introduction a few weeks ago of its new “Ice Lake” microprocessors . The Sunny Cove microarchitecture, which is the one used by the new Intel Core 10th generation chips, is, according to the engineers who designed it, the cornerstone... Read more

We are used to increasingly advanced processors with an amazing number of transistors, but we had never seen anything like the chip developed by a company called Cerebras . Its “Wafer Scale Engine” or WSE of Cerebras is the exaggeration made chip: it has 1.2 billion transistors , 400,000... Read more

PCI-SIG has announced the new standard for data transfers between computer components. PCI Express 5.0 is a new version that arrives only 18 months after the previous version, but does so by doubling the maximum transfer speed. It will take a while to get to the products of the... Read more

Heat is the enemy to beat . The “coconut” of integrated circuits in general. And of the microprocessors in particular . If it increases in excess it can cause the stability and performance of a computer to plummet, but the worst is not this. The most serious thing is... Read more

The Computex 2019 fair is a must for lovers of PCs and laptops, and this year there have been very important announcements from AMD and Intel . On the one hand we have the new AMD Ryzen 3000 with Zen 2 architecture . On the other, the new 10-nanometer... Read more