Computing & Hardware

Software gets the headlines, but hardware sets the limits. This section covers the physical layer of computing: semiconductor manufacturing and the geopolitics around it, chip architectures from CPUs to AI accelerators, quantum computing beyond the hype, and the photonics and display technologies — including LED and microLED science, a subject close to this publication’s name — that move information as light. We explain why transistor scaling matters to software you use daily, what quantum computers will and will not do, and how networking hardware quietly determines what the internet can carry.

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