Hi Fi News

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The Philips CD960 of 1987 was one of the company’s occasional flirtations with the top end of hi-fi. These were to show that the Dutch brand could offer components capable of state-of-the-art performance. Design and assembly was done in Japan by MJI

How It Works

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When the greatest inventions of the 20th century are weighed up for their merits there are few people who think of the integrated circuit. They often name some of the devices which it has enabled – which isn’t difficult, as they are numerous – but ra

APC

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University of California at Los Angeles researchers want to do the unthinkable: kill the motherboard. In a recent piece for IEEE Spectrum, the researchers said this act of technological matricide would enable the creation of more powerful systems tha

Maximum PC

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THE MODERN world runs on silicon—even if a product doesn’t have chips in it, the machines that make it, deliver it, or supply the raw materials will. Manufacturing chips is expensive; the machines that make the wafers cost $100 million a pop. Such ex

PC Gamer

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Your PC is made of sand. Or at least the bits that make it a PC are. Melted and refined sand is made into microchips because sand is made of silicon, which is a semiconductor, an element that acts as an electrical conductor under some conditions and

CosBeauty Magazine

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Cellulite – it’s not pretty whatever you call it. Common names for cellulite are orange-peel skin, cottage-cheese skin, dimples and hail damage. While the exact cause of cellulite is unknown, it appears to result from an interaction between the conne

Popular Science

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A radio signal tells the components to vaporize. A piece of polycarbonate. In a new kind of electronics, this material will vaporize when heated by a chemical reaction. Cornell University Engineers have come up with a trick to make electronics disint

Kiplinger

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Semiconductors are at the heart of every computer, whether it's the one on your desk, the one in your hand or the cloud data center hundreds of miles away. And that's why semiconductor stocks have long been a source of growthy returns – and will cont

Linux Format

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If you want to see some of these circuits working in actual hardware – a 4-bit adder would be a good choice because the circuit is interesting but of manageable proportions – there’s absolutely no reason why not. Unlike building logic gates, your bas

The Shed

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Starting with this issue of The Shed, I am thrilled to begin a new series of articles on restoring and upcycling vintage technology appliances. Before getting stuck into our first project, I will explain the methodology I follow when working on a vin

CQ Amateur Radio

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While it would be rather premature to make definite plans for post-war amateur radio, it is never too early to review the situation as it now stands. At the recent FCC frequency allocation hearings, recommendations were made by ARRL, RTPB and IRAC wh

The Atlantic

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Apple, Amazon, and Super Micro have all denied the veracity of a report on Chinese hardware hacking. No matter the outcome, the results could inflame an already raw trade relationship for high tech between the U.S. and China.

Popular Mechanics South Africa

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Carve a small notch in the middle of a bar of soap that has moisturiser. Put the soap in the microwave, turn it on, and a bubble will grow out of the notch, which will become big enough to fill the entire microwave. The microwave is heating up water

CQ Amateur Radio

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Feeling a bit bored? Still mostly stuck at home, with mostly quiet HF bands (or rather, mostly noise)? Luckily for you, your monthly dose of ham radio therapy is here! Let’s do some exploring together, both in the pages of this issue and on your radi

How It Works

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The point-contact transistor is invented at Bell Labs. The p-n junction transistor is created the following year. British electronics engineer Geoffrey Dummer (right) conceives the integrated circuit. He builds a prototype and presents it at a confe

Hi Fi News

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I am writing in response to the letter in the July issue from Mr Francisco Moita in Portugal who had mounted a separate arm and cartridge assembly alongside his Technics SL-10 deck. Like Adam Smith, who replied to the letter, you have to wonder why.

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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Previously on these pages we’ve looked at advances in quantum computing and the use of carbon nanotubes to build processors. This month we’re stepping further off the path of the conventional than ever before. Yes, we’re going to Bristol. The Univers

CQ Amateur Radio

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As our 75th anniversary approaches next year, we’ve been doing quite a bit of looking back over the past three-quarters of a century worth of CQ magazine. One of the most consistent things we’ve noticed is the extent to which — from the very first is

TechLife News

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Chinese and U.S. officials met face-to-face Thursday to try and resolve a dispute over technology that has taken the world’s two largest economies the closest they’ve ever come to a trade war. A high-powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing for tal

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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Your PC is made of sand. Or at least the bits that make it a PC are. Melted and refined sand is made into microchips because sand is made of silicon, which is a semiconductor, an element that acts as an electrical conductor under some conditions and

CQ Amateur Radio

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This month, we’ll take quick look at a variety of subjects. None is large enough to merit a whole article, but each has been vying for my attention for a little while now. I have heard from a few readers asking why I have not yet written about the FT

Futurity

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Self-erasing chips could help stop counterfeit electronics or provide alerts if sensitive shipments are tampered with, researchers report. The chips rely on a new material that temporarily stores energy, changing the color of the light it emits. It s

CQ Amateur Radio

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Pull up a chair, get your coffee out of the microwave and let’s have a little (very little?) talk about very little radio waves … better known as microwaves. Is any component of your ham station set up to transmit and/or receive above 1 GHz? If so, a

Maximum PC

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THE PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION of chips is becoming increasingly important. You can only shrink a chip so far before the basic laws of physics interfere. AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series has introduced the chiplet design to the mainstream. Intel has been working o

Futurity

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Ultra-compact, yet high-performing electronic chips could overcome the challenges that face conventional integrated circuits and maintain Moore’s Law indefinitely, researchers say. To create the chips, researchers would take advantage of relatively n

Futurity

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Researchers have discovered a better way to fabricate atom-thin computer processors. The discovery could have far-reaching impacts on nanoscale chip production and in labs across the globe where scientists are exploring 2D materials for ever-smaller

Futurity

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A sensor chip smaller than a ladybug can record multiple lung and heart signals along with body movements, researchers report. It could enable a future socially distanced health monitor. The core mechanism of the chip involves two finely manufactured

The Shed

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The editor and I were discussing articles for this issue and we both decided that something fun would be the idea. Fun always sounds good to me. A couple of days later I recalled a project that I’d seen way back in my scouting days, where we went hun

Futurity

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Terahertz frequency data links can bounce off walls without dropping too much data, new research shows. The results are good news for the possibility of future terahertz wireless data networks, which have the potential to carry many times more data t

APC

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The original Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) is a marvel in truly every sense, but the company has now upped the ante. The original WSE brought an unbelievable 400,000 cores, 1.2 trillion 16nm transistors, 46,225 square millimetres of silicon, and