{"id":209947,"date":"2025-03-28T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/advancing-semiconductor-devices-for-ai-single-transistor-acts-like-neuron-and-synapse"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:05:36","slug":"advancing-semiconductor-devices-for-ai-single-transistor-acts-like-neuron-and-synapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/advancing-semiconductor-devices-for-ai-single-transistor-acts-like-neuron-and-synapse","title":{"rendered":"Advancing semiconductor devices for AI: Single transistor acts like neuron and synapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/advancing-semiconductor-devices-for-ai-single-transistor-acts-like-neuron-and-synapse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated that a single, standard silicon transistor, the fundamental building block of microchips used in computers, smartphones and almost every electronic system, can function like a biological neuron and synapse when operated in a specific, unconventional way.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the College of Design and Engineering, NUS, the research team\u2019s work presents a highly scalable and energy-efficient solution for hardware-based <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+neural+networks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial neural networks<\/a> (ANNs).<\/p>\n<p>This brings <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/neuromorphic+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neuromorphic computing <\/a>\u2014where chips could process information more efficiently, much like the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain <\/a>\u2014closer to reality. Their study was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08742-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated that a single, standard silicon transistor, the fundamental building block of microchips used in computers, smartphones and almost every electronic system, can function like a biological neuron and synapse when operated in a specific, unconventional way. Led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209947","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}