{"id":200542,"date":"2024-12-01T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/silicon-chips-are-no-longer-sustainable-heres-whats-next"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:24:10","slug":"silicon-chips-are-no-longer-sustainable-heres-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/silicon-chips-are-no-longer-sustainable-heres-whats-next","title":{"rendered":"Silicon chips are no longer sustainable. Here\u2019s what\u2019s next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cC3vNgxM_B8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The classic strategy of continually shrinking transistors in silicon chips to create faster, more powerful computers is starting to fail us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though silicon works at these extremely small dimensions, the energy efficiency required to do one calculation has been going up, and this makes it highly unsustainable,\u201d Deep Jariwala, an engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/podcasts\/wsj-the-future-of-everything\/beyond-silicon-the-new-materials-charting-the-future-of-microchips\/3a39b251-be53-4bff-bebb-54136cba4192\">told the Wall Street Journal in 2022<\/a>. \u201cEnergy-wise it doesn\u2019t make sense anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We need to solve this sustainability issue if we want to continue improving our tech without causing further damage to the environment, and the hunt for solutions has some researchers taking a closer look at chips made from semiconducting materials <em>other<\/em> than silicon, including gallium nitride, a compound made of gallium and nitrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic strategy of continually shrinking transistors in silicon chips to create faster, more powerful computers is starting to fail us. \u201cEven though silicon works at these extremely small dimensions, the energy efficiency required to do one calculation has been going up, and this makes it highly unsustainable,\u201d Deep Jariwala, an engineering professor at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200542","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=200542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}