According to Google, that is the case. On an SoC, the latency and bandwidth between different components can be orders of magnitude better, with reduced power and cost compared to composing individual ASICs on a motherboard, Google argues. “Just like on a motherboard, individual functional units (such as CPUs, TPUs, video transcoding, encryption, compression, remote…
Month: April 2021
Astronomer Just Laid Out a Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel
It’s not the ship type, but rather a way to navigate in the stars. Using the positions and shifting light of stars, both near and far, astronomer Coryn A.L. Bailer-Jones has demonstrated the feasibility of autonomous, on-the-fly navigation for spacecraft traveling far beyond the Solar System. For more, check out this Science Alert story.
Scientists Might Have Just Stumbled Upon a New Kind of Physics
Intriguing new results at CERN point to a new force of nature that scientists don’t understand. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have recorded some highly unusual data that could point to an entirely new force of nature, which would mean a whole new area of physics. The secret lies in an elusive, unstable…
Powerlight wireless power transmission
Almost like being back in the Tesla days… In 2019, PowerLight showed that its power-beaming system can transmit 400 watts of power — enough to fire up an array of lights, laptops and a coffeemaker. In 2020, it followed up with a demonstration of a lightweight power receiver suitable for drones. The project proved to…