One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Micron’s decision to exit the consumer market means Crucial RAM will stop being sold, tightening supply and driving prices higher for PC components.

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An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for ...

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Chip startup Mythic Inc. today announced that it has closed a $125 million funding round led by DCVC. The venture capital ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google Cloud AI Research have developed a framework that enables large language model (LLM) agents to organize their experiences into a ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer.