{"id":125540,"date":"2021-07-27T03:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/arms-new-flexible-plastic-chip-could-enable-an-internet-of-everything"},"modified":"2021-07-27T03:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T10:23:24","slug":"arms-new-flexible-plastic-chip-could-enable-an-internet-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/arms-new-flexible-plastic-chip-could-enable-an-internet-of-everything","title":{"rendered":"Arm\u2019s New Flexible Plastic Chip Could Enable an \u2018Internet of Everything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arms-new-flexible-plastic-chip-could-enable-an-internet-of-everything2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arm thinks those kinds of applications may not be far away, though. In a paper published last week in<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03625-w\">Nature<\/a>,<\/em> researchers from the company detailed a 32-bit microprocessor built directly onto a plastic substrate that promises to be both flexible and dramatically cheaper than today\u2019s chips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe envisage that PlasticARM will pioneer the development of low-cost, fully flexible smart integrated systems to enable an \u2018internet of everything\u2019 consisting of the integration of more than a trillion inanimate objects over the next decade into the digital world,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Flexible electronics aren\u2019t exactly new, and sensors, batteries, LEDs, antennae, and many other simpler components have all been demonstrated before. But a practical microprocessor that can carry out meaningful computations has been elusive thanks to the large number of transistors required, say the researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arm thinks those kinds of applications may not be far away, though. In a paper published last week in Nature, researchers from the company detailed a 32-bit microprocessor built directly onto a plastic substrate that promises to be both flexible and dramatically cheaper than today\u2019s chips. \u201cWe envisage that PlasticARM will pioneer the development of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}