Tag: computers

We’re in a computer chip shortage, and the world needs new solutions — fast. Everything we do revolves around chips: Our cars, our businesses, our lives, all are powered by computers. Without access to new chips, life as we know it grinds to a halt.

Today, most semiconductors are produced overseas, and the pandemic greatly impacted both chip production and supply chains, while demand hasn’t slowed. There’s also growing demand for new types of chips, to run things like complex AI models, quantum computers, and massive cloud computing systems.

Up in Albany, New York, researchers are working to address the chip shortage now, as well as design the new types of chips the world will need moving forward. These efforts could be aided by President Biden’s calls to build semiconductors in the US, and the recent signing of the CHIPS and Science Act, which allocates billions in funding for R&D of new chips in the States.

Research carried out in Albany has helped usher in the digital age we currently live in. And the research happening today has the potential to change how we discover new materials, cure illnesses, communicate, travel, work, and live.

U.S. cell phone carriers have long required SIM cards to let you use devices on their networks. Now, the traditional plastic SIM cards are being phased out in favor of embedded versions called eSIMs. The change could make switching carriers easier, and open up new possibilities for how phones are designed. WSJ personal tech reporter Dalvin Brown joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss the change and why it’s taken so long for eSIMs to be embraced in the U.S.

After two years of a chip shortage, we are now finding ourselves in a chip glut. What does a deepening oversupply of semiconductors mean for the industry?

WSJ semiconductors reporter Asa Fitch joins host Julie Chang to explain what led to this point and how the industry is looking ahead.

Just like the mailer demons you may have seen pop up on an undelivered email, there are hundreds of other software “demons” that live inside your computer.

Whenever a computer completes an automated task, they are said to be done by computer demons.

These demons are anthropomorphized figures that help computer scientists understand complicated processes, which in turn drives AI forward.

What is a port? What are port numbers? A port is a logical connection that is used by programs and services to exchange information. It specifically determines which program or service on a computer or server that is going to be used..whether that is pulling up a web page, using an FTP service, accessing email and so on.