{"id":196178,"date":"2024-09-14T05:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/axon-mimicking-materials-for-computing"},"modified":"2024-09-14T05:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T10:24:03","slug":"axon-mimicking-materials-for-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/axon-mimicking-materials-for-computing","title":{"rendered":"Axon-mimicking materials for computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/axon-mimicking-materials-for-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Texas A&amp;M University, Sandia National Lab \u2014 Livermore, and Stanford University are taking lessons from the brain to design materials for more efficient computing. The new class of materials discovered is the first of their kind \u2013 mimicking the behavior of an axon by spontaneously propagating an electrical signal as it travels along a transmission line. These findings could be critical to the future of computing and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>This study was published in Nature (\u201cAxon-like active signal transmission\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Any electrical signal propagating in a metallic conductor loses amplitude due to the metal\u2019s natural resistance. Modern computer processing (CPU) and graphic processing units can contain around 30 miles of fine copper wires moving electrical signals around within the chip. These losses quickly add up, requiring amplifiers to maintain the pulse integrity. These design constraints impact the performance of current interconnect-dense chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Texas A&amp;M University, Sandia National Lab \u2014 Livermore, and Stanford University are taking lessons from the brain to design materials for more efficient computing. The new class of materials discovered is the first of their kind \u2013 mimicking the behavior of an axon by spontaneously propagating an electrical signal as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196178","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=196178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}