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That is interesting. I wonder what kind of applications this would be for.

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>Today Nature journal publishes Pragmatic Semiconductor’s latest research article, a Bendable Non-silicon RISC-V Microprocessor, demonstrating the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor in a flexible technology that is fully functional while flexed.

That is interesting. I wonder what kind of applications this would be for. Archive: https://archive.today/HIzn7 From the post: >>Today Nature journal publishes Pragmatic Semiconductor’s latest research article, a Bendable Non-silicon RISC-V Microprocessor, demonstrating the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor in a flexible technology that is fully functional while flexed.

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indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors

But wait for its mind-blowing speed:

It is implemented, fabricated and demonstrated to operate at 60 kHz consuming less than 6 mW power

So about 1/10,000 the speed of typical small RISC CPUs. Still interesting for cheap, low-power simple processing uses. With some hardware assist it could handle low-speed communication, though would probably need silicon to generate any RF comms.

Holy shit that "paper" is buzzword-filled.

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Came here to point this out as well. Previous flexible and plastic-based CPUs have also had a significantly low clock speed due to the scale of the components being massive versus traditional Si dies. That requires the circuit to operate at sub-MHz speeds since the device is massive (in area) and the signal paths are long. It seems like a novel device only suited for low performance applications that don't need a lot of resources so I'm not sure why they put ML features on it as a priority. Hardly seems like ML is needed here at all. And what about RAM? Big features don't lead to efficient or performant RAM devices at all. I just don't see the need for such a development when we currently have extremely low-cost and micro-sized microcontrollers available currently which blow the doors off this things performance abilities. Padauk chips are in the range of $0.01 per unit at 1000 units.

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Could work in a grid or cluster config.

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The possibilities for wearables, healthcare, and consumer goods just opened up big time. Exciting stuff!