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What is happening in reversible and zero-energy computing — chips that recover their own switching energy, the field's slow walk from the lab to the data centre, and the people who started it all.
Reversible Computation 2026 convenes in Torino
The field's main annual conference returns on 9–10 July, spanning reversible languages, circuits, quantum computing and the thermodynamics of computation.
ProgrammingVaire moves to its second reversible chip
After demonstrating net energy recovery on silicon in 2025, the startup turns to a second chip aimed at logic and competitive performance, with a sharper prototype due in 2026.
ProgrammingVaire tapes out a chip that recycles half its energy
A 22nm test chip recovers about half its switching energy through a resonant power clock instead of dumping it as heat.
ProgrammingReversible computing escapes the lab
After decades as a curiosity, adiabatic and reversible computing edges towards commercialisation as the AI energy crunch bites.
ProgrammingCharles Bennett honoured for reversible computation
The founder of reversible computation receives the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his work on the physics of information.