Researchers claim that theoretical 3D chip stack that interleaves next-gen memory and logic technologies using carbon nanotubes which could lead to pocket-sized super computers.
H.S. Philip Wong, Stanford University’s Professor of Electrical Engineering, recently talked about the future of computing power at a recent Semicon West conference. Wong stated in his talk that the material faces huge technical challenges, but the idea is that the interleaving of layers of resistive and magnetic RAM with logical layers made from 1D and 2D field effect transistors could result in a computing system that would theoretically be as powerful as the IBM Watson super computer, but in pocket-sized form.
"This design requires new, high-efficiency heat spreaders—the thermal aspect is critically important," he said. "The resulting design could provide a thousand-fold power reduction for the IBM system that consumed 175kW power to beat human contestants in the Jeopardy game show. That system packed 2,880 IBM Power 7 cores running at 3.5GHz delivering 80TFLOPS. All the content was loaded into Watson's DRAM, not hard drives, because so much energy is spent in moving data," said Wong.
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Researchers claim that theoretical 3D chip stack that interleaves next-gen memory and logic technologies using carbon nanotubes which could lead to pocket-sized super computers.
H.S. Philip Wong, Stanford University’s Professor of Electrical Engineering, recently talked about the future of computing power at a recent Semicon West conference. Wong stated in his talk that the material faces huge technical challenges, but the idea is that the interleaving of layers of resistive and magnetic RAM with logical layers made from 1D and 2D field effect transistors could result in a computing system that would theoretically be as powerful as the IBM Watson super computer, but in pocket-sized form.
"This design requires new, high-efficiency heat spreaders—the thermal aspect is critically important," he said. "The resulting design could provide a thousand-fold power reduction for the IBM system that consumed 175kW power to beat human contestants in the Jeopardy game show. That system packed 2,880 IBM Power 7 cores running at 3.5GHz delivering 80TFLOPS. All the content was loaded into Watson's DRAM, not hard drives, because so much energy is spent in moving data," said Wong.