China has begun mass production of next-generation processors based on molybdenum disulfide instead of traditional silicon semiconductors[1]. According to Professor Li Hongge’s team at Beihang University, these chips merge binary and stochastic logic to achieve better fault tolerance and power efficiency for applications like touch displays and flight systems[2].
The breakthrough came through developing a Hybrid Stochastic Number (HSN) system that combines traditional binary with probability-based numbers[2:1]. This innovation helps overcome two major challenges in chip technology - the power wall from binary systems’ high energy consumption, and the architecture wall that makes new non-silicon chips difficult to integrate with conventional systems[2:2].
Won’t make any difference if you are still on windows
they’ll find a way for telemetry to use half of it and the start menu another quarter
😂
Wom’t make a difference with any current OS, none of those would work with the new arquitecture, way different from the current one. One thing is the new hardware and another is the current lack of any soft or OS for it. Not even DOOM would run in it. Maybe in one or two years it would make sense to change your PC.
Another alternative to silice are diamonds, there the chips are with the same arquitecture as those from silice, but with the advantage that they support much more heat to the point that they don’t even need refrigeration, apart the electric apabilities of diamond is way better as those from silice, that permits a way higher speed and stability. The price isn’t much higher as the one from normal chips with sythetic diamonds. They are already in use, even with manufactories in Spain.
New materials doesn’t mean new architecture. They can build RISC-V or ARM chips with that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth's_crust
silicon – 28.2% of earth’s crust; 7,200,000 tonnes extracted per year
bismuth – 0.00000085% of earth’s crust; 10,200 tonnes extracted per year
doesn’t it say “molybdenum disulfide” in the text?
molybdenum - 1.2 ppm (0.00012%); 227,000 tonnes extracted per year
The techradar text says bismuth; the azernews.az text says molybdenum
Industrial diamonds made with almost everything which contains Carbon.
This is the first thing that came to mind when reading the article. Replacing silicon with bismuth sounds like a downside.
Silicon is used for way more than just chips though, I’d be surprised if it’s more than a percent
Bismuth oxyselenide? You mean it can cure both indigestion and get rid of dandruff‽
Take two micro-processors into the shower?
“This allows electrons to flow with almost no resistance, like water through a smooth pipe,” Peng explained.
Um actually even smooth water pipes have a lot of tubulance since all materials aren’t perfectly smooth so the edges of the pipe have a lot of turbulance which dramatically slows down the water from the theoretical maximum.
Marx never considered water pipes aren’t perfectly smooth
I went on a shinkansen recently. It was really cool.
Now I wonder what would happen if you coated together a super hydrophobic layer.
dang I never thought of that. I always assumed silicon was basicly the end, except for quantum computers which aren’t very useful for most computing.
Never assume something is the end. There is always something better. It is just one breakthrough away.
—me encouraging our locksmith after we’ve accidentally triggered the prison alarm
Does it run Crysis though?
ONLY GAMERS WILL UNDERSTAND
Well good to know the chips won’t stick to anything since they’re made out of anti-seize grease.
so, if i understand this correctly, it can do stuff like fast and cheap imprecise arithmetic of floating point numbers by doing something like converting the signal to a continuous (non-binary) voltage, then doing some analogous circuitry, then converting the signal back to digital?
Sounds like total incompatibility. It will take decades before we could even think about incorporating non binary based systems into our workflow.
I don’t think decades, but some years for sure.
