In the December issue of the IEEE Spectrum magazine, read about the race to save submarine stealth in an age of AI surveillance, Google's decade-long quest to advance nuclear energy, how to speed up chip design, and more!
The Race to Save Submarine Stealth in an Age of AI Surveillance
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“The assurance that submarines would likely survive the first missile strike and thus be able to respond by launching missiles in a second strike is key to the strategy of deterrence known as mutually assured destruction. Any new technology that might render the oceans effectively transparent, making it trivial to spot lurking submarines, could undermine the peace of the world…” |
Google's Nuclear Bet: The Decade-Long Quest to Advance Nuclear Energy
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“Google’s nuclear-energy R&D group, affectionately known as NERD, has supported cutting-edge projects like nuclear-fusion research at the company TAE Technologies. For a decade, Google Research has helped advance nuclear energy R&D…” |
How to Speed Up Chip Design
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“Chip design has come a long way since 1971, when Federico Faggin finished sketching the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, using little more than a straightedge and colored pencils. But as chips have grown staggeringly complex, so have the problems designers must solve…” |
The Birth of the Modern Wafer Fab
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“In 1970, Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line that would produce integrated circuits in less than one day. Not only was such a goal gutsy 54 years ago, it would be bold even in today’s billion-dollar fabs, where the fabrication time of an advanced IC is measured in weeks…” |
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