Not all professionals involved in designing microprocessors, seeking to fulfill the Moore's Law, equipping all their chips by more and more transistors. Commonwealth University (Virginia) Engineers created a cold processor that runs with a minimum voltage. Their research has not gone unnoticed, and scientists have been awarded two cash grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Corporation's semiconductor research. The total amount of grants is 1.57 million U.S. dollars, the money allocated for the continuation of the work in the most - energy-efficient CPU cycles.
They work on the issue of transistors substitution by special nanomagnets, which can be adapted to process digital information. In this case, the resulting processor TDP is reduced by a thousand times or more, when compared with transistor analog. This will place various elements of computer systems on a single chip, without overheating. This kind of device, according to developers, are ideally suited for implantation in human, especially considering that they could well do without external power sources, getting enough energy from movements. Related Products :
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