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Scientists create world's first microwave-powered computer chip — it's much faster and consumes less power than conventional CPUs

A new kind of processor that uses microwaves can be used in future AI systems or in wireless communications, a new study ...
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A New Study Shakes Up Our Understanding of the World’s First Analog Computer

Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity. A ...
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Analog Computers: History, Functions, and Real-World Applications

A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.
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Scientists Found a Hidden Computer From the Roman Empire—and Solved Its Mysterious Secret

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an enduring mystery surrounding what it was used for. Now ...
Electronic Design

So…Use of Analog Computers is “A Question of Time” (Part 1)

Our new tech editor for Analog looks at the evolution of “analog” and how it inadvertently spun off a pop music genre. Operational Amplifiers are exactly that—amplifiers that can perform mathematical ...
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Microsoft and Barclays test analog optical computer

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The technology, says Microsoft, could transcend the ...
Ars Technica

Was the Amiga the first to do analog RGB? (I.e., VGA before VGA)

For reasons that are probably too boring to recount here I suddenly found myself interested in the evolution of graphics/display technologies over the past 45 years or so. Turns out that early home ...