Computer Technology

[boredjedi]

New semiconductor could allow classical and quantum computing on the same chip, thanks to superconductivity breakthrough

Researchers believe they can fit 25 million Josephson junctions — a useful component for quantum computing — on one two-inch wafer with this approach.

https://www.livescience.com/technolo...y-breakthrough

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-025-02042-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-025-02042-8.epdf
(I was able to read the epdf once. But when I went back to it, it's a pay view. So keep reading on first view.

[boredjedi]

Going from EV Lithography to finally taming X-rays for X-ray Lithography chip fab

[LazyPooky]

New ASUS x870e crosshair motherboard in 2006 design. For nostalgic people.
https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/ro...rosshair-2006/

[boredjedi]

New ASUS x870e crosshair motherboard in 2006 design. For nostalgic people.
https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/ro...rosshair-2006/

If they really wanted to go retro, should have included the AGP expansion slot.

Looks nice and beefy though.

Crosshair haven't heard about that in a long time.

My only Asus motherboard was the one that proceeded this current MSI Motherboard.
Lasted a long time 2009 to 2022 model M4A78T-E. 2009 they were still known as a
quality motherboard manufacturer but during that time after, they rather fell
off from what I was reading during those years.

The Asus was my upgrade from the very colorful ECS KA3 MVP Extreme motherboard (2006).
The ECS "Designed for early AM2 Socket AMD processors, this motherboard was notable for being one of the first Socket AM2 boards
to feature the ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset (RD580) with full-bandwidth PCI-Express x16 slots." Has a
unique designed northbridge heatsink








The motherboard that preceded the ECS was Asrock 939 Dual SATA 2 (2005).
It was a transition architect board from AGP to PCI-e (among a few other hardware transitions).
It had both graphic card expansion slots "featuring both an AGP 8X slot and a native PCI Express x16 port".


All pretty good motherboards for their time.

[boredjedi]

2022 fixed.

[chuft]

Quote button seems busted.

"Lasted a long time 2009 to 2002"

wut

[chuft]

Hmm now quote button is working.

[LazyPooky]

Probably a delay in loading all elements on the page.