A team of microchip engineers at Pragmatic Semiconductor, working with a pair of colleagues from Harvard University and another from Qamcom, has developed a bendable, programmable, non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor. Their research is published in the journal Nature.
Over the past several years, hardware manufacturers have been developing bendable microprocessors for use in medical applications. A bendable device with bendable components would allow for the creation of 24-hour sensors that could be applied to any part of the body.
For this new project, the research team developed an inexpensive circuit board that could be bent around virtually any curved object. The material was made using indium gallium zinc oxide instead of the more rigid silicon.
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