Information and communications technology - Topics

What is a server and where do they live? What is cloud storage and where are your files kept? Is 5G actually faster in everyday use? What is 6G and when will we see it? How data centers keep the internet running The network engineers who keep the internet alive What is net neutrality and why does it matter? How satellite internet is changing rural connectivity The environmental cost of our digital lives Microcontroller vs application processor: where is the line for a battery-powered product? Why do exascale supercomputers rarely reach peak FLOPS on real science codes? InfiniBand vs Ethernet for the interconnect fabric of a large GPU cluster Harvest now decrypt later: why can post quantum migration not wait? Does V2X broadcast my speed and location to every car nearby? How do you keep a switching regulator from polluting a sensitive analog rail? Which RISC-V extensions are actually ratified and shipping in production silicon? HD maps vs online mapping: which one scales to every city? Rollups vs sidechains: where does your transaction really settle? C-V2X vs DSRC: which standard did the industry actually settle on? How much driving data does my car upload and can I switch it off? Broadcast rights split one racing series across three streaming services How do you simulate a circuit when the device model itself is wrong? Why do speculative execution mitigations keep costing performance? Why do process node names no longer match any real dimension? Quantum random number generators already shipping inside security hardware Post quantum certificates and the long tail of legacy devices What makes RF board design fundamentally different from low-frequency design? Clock jitter budget: how much can each stage consume? Quantum key distribution over fiber: how far before trusted nodes are needed? Mesh vs ring vs crossbar: which interconnect wins on a many-core die? How much of a CPU benchmark score survives contact with the workload you actually run? How do you split one physical AI card between several users?