Perspectives

For 50 years, the story of computing has been the story of silicon. The magic of Moore’s Law—the relentless shrinking of silicon transistors—is what gave us everything from the personal

We spent the last decade building massive, hungry machines. To make an artificial intelligence system “smart,” we threw gigabytes of data at rows of power-hungry processors in cold, humming data

For the past 50 years, our world has been built on a silent hum—the hum of electricity flowing through silicon. Our computers, our phones, and the entire internet run on

For decades, the future of computing felt predictable. Our laptops and phones would get a little faster, the batteries would last a little longer, and the screens would get a

We see the big robots and the self-driving cars, but we miss the real revolution happening right under our noses. The future of the smart city is not about giant

We think of electronics as hard, flat, and rigid. The printed circuit board (PCB) has been the stiff green backbone of every gadget for fifty years. It is a simple,

We have a massive problem with the Internet of Things. We built billions of smart sensors, trackers, and cameras, but we forgot one crucial detail. Someone has to change the

We spent the last decade obsessed with software. We marveled at the code that could write poetry or beat a grandmaster at chess. But in 2026, the conversation has shifted.

For decades, we’ve understood computer chips in two basic flavors. First, there’s the generalist: the CPU. It’s like a Swiss Army knife, able to do almost any task you throw

Just over a decade ago, the fastest part of your computer—the processor—spent most of its time waiting. It was waiting for a slow, clunky, mechanical device to find the data