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March 5, 1976 — The Day the Supercomputer Was Born
On March 5, 1976, something extraordinary arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It weighed more than five tons , cost roughly $19 million , and looked like a piece of futuristic furniture designed by someone who understood both physics and aesthetics. It was the Cray-1, designed by legendary engineer Seymour Cray, and at the time it was the fastest computer on Earth. The machine could perform roughly 160–250 million floating-point operations per second. That number might

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The Reversible Chip Revolution: Promising, but Not Quite World-Changing (Yet)
Sometimes, the most intriguing ideas sneak up on you during casual conversations. Recently, while chatting with a fellow member of G7—a...

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Light-Based Computing: The Optical Transistor Revolution
For decades, electronic transistors have been the bedrock of technological progress, enabling the rapid advancement of computing power...

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The Great Nanometer Chip Race: A New Horizon for Semiconductor Technology
In the fiercely competitive world of semiconductor technology, the pursuit of smaller, more efficient chips has been relentless. The...

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