{"id":231978,"date":"2026-02-24T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/researchers-pioneer-next-generation-ai-semiconductors-with-thermal-constraining-technique"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:04:10","slug":"researchers-pioneer-next-generation-ai-semiconductors-with-thermal-constraining-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/researchers-pioneer-next-generation-ai-semiconductors-with-thermal-constraining-technique","title":{"rendered":"Researchers pioneer next-generation AI semiconductors with \u2018thermal constraining\u2019 technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-pioneer-next-generation-ai-semiconductors-with-thermal-constraining-technique3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Professor Taesung Kim from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University has developed a technology that precisely controls the internal structure of semiconductors using heat, much like stamping out \u201cbungeoppang\u201d (fish-shaped pastry) in a mold. The team report that this approach improves the performance of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) hardware. With this technology, complex AI computations can be processed more quickly using significantly less electricity than before. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.5c14095\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal ACS Nano.<\/p>\n<p>Most computers and smartphones we use today operate based on the \u201cvon Neumann architecture.\u201d This structure is similar to having a desk (the processor) and a bookshelf (the memory) placed far apart.<\/p>\n<p>Each time you study, you have to go back and forth to get a book, which takes time and effort. To solve this problem, a method called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-09-chip-ramps-artificial-intelligence.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">in-memory computing<\/a>\u201d has been proposed, in which computation is carried out directly inside the memory. The key component that enables this approach is the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-12-team-transistors-ferroelectricity-based-polarity-switchable.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">ferroelectric transistor<\/a>,\u201d which is the focus of this study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Professor Taesung Kim from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University has developed a technology that precisely controls the internal structure of semiconductors using heat, much like stamping out \u201cbungeoppang\u201d (fish-shaped pastry) in a mold. The team report that this approach improves the performance of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231978","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}