{"id":140624,"date":"2022-06-14T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/engineers-build-lego-like-artificial-intelligence-chip"},"modified":"2022-06-14T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:24:12","slug":"engineers-build-lego-like-artificial-intelligence-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/engineers-build-lego-like-artificial-intelligence-chip","title":{"rendered":"Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-build-lego-like-artificial-intelligence-chip3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a more sustainable future, where cellphones, smartwatches, and other wearable devices don\u2019t have to be shelved or discarded for a newer model. Instead, they could be upgraded with the latest sensors and processors that would snap onto a device\u2019s internal chip\u2014like LEGO bricks incorporated into an existing build. Such reconfigurable chipware could keep devices up to date while reducing our electronic waste.<\/p>\n<p>Now MIT engineers have taken a step toward that modular vision with a LEGO-like design for a stackable, reconfigurable artificial intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The design comprises alternating layers of sensing and processing elements, along with light-emitting diodes (LED) that allow for the chip\u2019s layers to communicate optically. Other modular chip designs employ conventional wiring to relay signals between layers. Such intricate connections are difficult if not impossible to sever and rewire, making such stackable designs not reconfigurable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a more sustainable future, where cellphones, smartwatches, and other wearable devices don\u2019t have to be shelved or discarded for a newer model. Instead, they could be upgraded with the latest sensors and processors that would snap onto a device\u2019s internal chip\u2014like LEGO bricks incorporated into an existing build. Such reconfigurable chipware could keep devices [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140624","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}