Intel works with MIT to design impressive high resolution image scaling chips

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Intel has been making some pretty big claims in the PC gaming space lately. Recently the company laid out it’s CPU roadmap all the way up to 2024 and beyond. But there’s more to Intel than just a big PC gaming part manufacturer, sure the company is showing off their brand new Arc Alchemist GPU running Tomb Raider to investors, but it’s also doing things like making this cool digital book which helps preserve the voices of people with MND.

Another way Intel is working towards new and interesting tech is with real-time imaging devices. According to MIT News, Intel has worked with researchers to create a radar device far more capable than other systems but with the ability to fit in the palm of your hand.

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This credit card sized device has been designed by researchers at the The Terahertz Integrated Electronics Group at MIT, led by Associate Professor Ruonan Han. It consists of a reflectarray with around 10,000 antennas designed to focus a beam of energy electronically with no moving parts. This terahertz energy beam is a bit similar to things like X-rays, and can pass through many solid materials but is non-ionising so should be without any adverse health effects. It shares properties with infrared radiation and microwave radiation as it falls between both on the electromagnetic spectrum.

“Antenna arrays are very interesting because, just by changing the time delays that are fed to each antenna, you can change what direction the energy is being focused, and it is completely electronic,” says Nathan Monroe ’13, MNG ’17, first author of the paper who recently completed his PhD in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering