{"id":218545,"date":"2025-07-23T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-reconfigurable-memristor-based-system-enables-in-memory-data-sorting"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:15:16","slug":"new-reconfigurable-memristor-based-system-enables-in-memory-data-sorting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-reconfigurable-memristor-based-system-enables-in-memory-data-sorting","title":{"rendered":"New reconfigurable memristor-based system enables in-memory data sorting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-reconfigurable-memristor-based-system-enables-in-memory-data-sorting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organizing data in a specific order, also known as sorting, is a central computing operation performed by a wide range of systems. Conventional hardware systems rely on separate components to store and sort data, which limits their speed and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Peking University have recently developed a new reconfigurable sort-in-memory system that relies on memristors to in-situ sort stored data. Their proposed system, outlined in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-025-01405-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i> and led by Professor Yuchao Yang, was found to store and sort data both quickly and energy-efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original idea comes from the fact that although operations like matrix multiplication and convolution have been widely implemented in CIM (Computing-in-Memory) systems, sorting has long been regarded as a \u2018hard nut to crack\u2019 in computing-in-memory technology due to its unique computational characteristics,\u201d Yaoyu Tao, corresponding author of the paper, told TechXplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizing data in a specific order, also known as sorting, is a central computing operation performed by a wide range of systems. Conventional hardware systems rely on separate components to store and sort data, which limits their speed and energy efficiency. Researchers at Peking University have recently developed a new reconfigurable sort-in-memory system that relies [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218545","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=218545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}