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China’s 100 GHz light-powered chip ditches electricity, shatters speed record in computing
Instead of using electronic oscillators to keep internal time, these chips run photons around a racecourse-like circuit that ...
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PC CPU models
The brains of the PC is a central processing unit (CPU) made by Intel or AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981. Following is a brief ...
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The architecture of the Central Processing Unit (CPU)
All programs and data processing are run in the CPU and all hardware components are, to some extent, controlled by it.
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What is a quantum processing unit (QPU)?
It is akin to a conventional computer's central processing unit (CPU), which performs calculations using the information held in binary bits – the 1s and 0s of data. Unlike classical processors ...
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Is a light-speed chip unveiled by China-led team the future of ultra-fast processing?
The main processor of any computer – its central processing unit (CPU) – relies on the steady pulse and specific frequency generated by a clock signal to synchronise its internal functions.