India is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in building up a computer chip industry.

Professor James Rondinelli collaborated with IBM to help turn simulations into potential practical chip designs.

Bees navigate their surroundings with astonishing precision. Their brains are now inspiring the design of tiny, low-power chips that could one day guide miniature robots and sensors.

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company’s computing power. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco After signing deals to use computer ...