Closing in on superconducting semiconductors

Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers created a superconducting circuit that could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum and high-performance computing systems.

Julianna Mullen | Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
June 17, 2025 ~5 min

Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI

Agreement between MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries aims to deliver power efficiencies for data centers and ultra-low power consumption for intelligent devices at the edge.

Microsystems Technology Laboratories • mit
Feb. 28, 2025 ~4 min


Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium

The consortium will bring researchers and industry together to focus on impact.

Liam McDonnell | Office of Innovation • mit
Feb. 3, 2025 ~12 min

New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials

With their recently-developed neural network architecture, MIT researchers can wring more information out of electronic structure calculations.

Steve Nadis | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering • mit
Jan. 14, 2025 ~9 min

MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Dec. 18, 2024 ~8 min

China-based emissions of three potent climate-warming greenhouse gases spiked in past decade

Two studies pinpoint their likely industrial sources and mitigation opportunities.

Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
July 18, 2024 ~5 min

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel’s timing to maximize signal-to-noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
June 13, 2024 ~8 min

Modular, scalable hardware architecture for a quantum computer

A new quantum-system-on-chip enables the efficient control of a large array of qubits, moving toward practical quantum computing.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
May 29, 2024 ~9 min


A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering

New research by a team of MIT engineers offers a guide for fine-tuning specific material properties.

Peter Reuell | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering • mit
March 29, 2024 ~8 min

MIT, Applied Materials, and the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub to bring 200mm advanced research capabilities to MIT.nano

State-of-the-art toolset will bridge academic innovations and industry pathways to scale for semiconductors, microelectronics, and other critical technologies.

MIT.nano • mit
Jan. 30, 2024 ~7 min

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