Technology

America’s lead in advanced computing is almost gone

Part 1: Systems and Capabilities

Abstract American usage of advanced computing to solve commercial and government issues has a long and august history that ranges from weather and climate simulations to drug discovery and protein folding simulations.  Since computing’s early days, Americans have been at the forefront, outpacing foreign rivals and providing a competitive advantage for U.S. businesses. But American […]

America’s lead in advanced computing is almost gone

Part 2: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Abstract In Part 1, we focused on the decline in U.S. leadership across multiple dimensions of advanced computing.  It’s well understood that progress in these systems is intimately dependent upon advances in the underlying hardware, and specifically the processor (CPU), graphics (GPU), and ASIC accelerators.  In Part 2, we focus on the design of semiconductor […]