Microchips – their past, present and future

These integrated circuits, such as central processing units (CPUs), contain millions or billions of transistors that can perform various calculations and operations. They are found in devices like personal computers, smartphones and servers

By Newsroom On Jan 4, 2025

By Correspondent

Microchips are entering a whole new world of possibility.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its vast need for power and speed is driving a new generation of microchip innovations. In March 2024, Californian technology corporation Nvidia unveiled an AI chip that can complete tasks 30 times faster than its predecessor.

And now Google has built a “mindboggling” chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take the world’s fastest computers 10 septillion years, reports The Guardian.

It’s the latest quantum computing breakthrough and will take us one step closer to a ‘quantum economy’, which by 2035 could have an value of up to $2 trillion, according to analysis from McKinsey. Currently, more than $40 billion of public sector investments are being ploughed into the technology, according to the World Economic Forum’s Quantum Economy Blueprint report.

So, what are microchips and how have they changed our world?

Source: Weforum