Pub Date : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11237235
Aaron Mok
Qantum computing has long held promise as the next era in information processing, with applications in drug discovery, finance, and encryption. But it's only in recent years that the technology has edged closer to commercial viability. With that, a new demand has emerged in the job market: engineers capable of designing, building, and maintaining the next generation of supercomputers.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11237225
Stephen Cass
Crowdsourcing has become a go-to for independent and open-source hardware creators hoping to turn a cool prototype into a polished product. But many projects fail along the way, often for nontechnical reasons. Helen Leigh is the director of business development at Crowd Supply. A division of Mouser Electronics, Crowd Supply is a crowdfunding site for small hardware manufacturers making novel products. Leigh spoke with IEEE Spectrum about what makes a crowdsourcing project successful, and how Crowd Supply is trying to help.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11237229
Srabanti Chowdhury
Today's stunning computing power is allowing us to move from human intelligence toward artificial intelligence. And as our machines gain more power, they're becoming not just tools but decision-makers shaping our future.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11237232
Allison Marsh
The Ford X-100 concept car was billed as a “laboratory on wheels.” Unveiled in 1952, it boasted more than 50 innovations, of which many proved to be keepers (heated seats, power windows, automatic transmission) and others not so much (an electric shaver stowed in the glove compartment). The convertible's clear, glare-free, heat-resistant plastic canopy retracted at the flick of a lever and then closed automatically when a moisture sensor detected rain. The roadworthy auto toured in Europe and the United States and in 1954 was featured in a wacky Hollywood movie, Woman's World, about a fictional car company whose offerings were “designed to convert your bank account into our dividends.”
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Pub Date : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11237221
Harry Goldstein
Diamonds, lasers, and oil aren't the first things you may think of when considering ways to keep chips and computers cool. But as modern chip designs pack and stack more transistors into ever smaller spaces, heat has emerged as a critical problem.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11237228
Dina Genkina
Since 2018, the consortium MLCommons has been running a sort of Olympics for AI training. The competition, called MLPerf, consists of a set of tasks for training specific AI models, on predefined datasets, to a certain accuracy. Essentially, these tasks, called benchmarks, test how well a hardware and low-level software configuration is set up to train a particular AI model.
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