{"id":32771,"date":"2016-12-18T00:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T08:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-new-kind-of-computer-chip-silicon-may-be-replaced-by-new-material"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:11:52","slug":"a-new-kind-of-computer-chip-silicon-may-be-replaced-by-new-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-new-kind-of-computer-chip-silicon-may-be-replaced-by-new-material","title":{"rendered":"A New Kind of Computer Chip: Silicon May Be Replaced by New Material"},"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\/bm6ScvNygUU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the forefront of computing technology for decades, silicon-based chips\u2019 reign may soon end, as today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ex-nasa-chief-reveals-knuedge-a-neuro-computing-startup\/\">chip designers are looking for other materials<\/a> that offer more options and more amazing abilities than the silicon we all know and love.<\/p>\n<p>This new trend has spurred the guys at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)<\/a> to develop what could be the foundation for multi-role computer chips.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/aelm.201600189\/abstract;jsessionid=5B9498279393E1F6BDBC483FC7B6DE00.f01t04\">study<\/a>, ORNL scientists looked at single crystal complex oxide materials at the very smallest levels. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/news\/complex-materials-can-self-organize-circuits-may-form-basis-multifunction-chips\" target=\"_blank\">discovered that<\/a> that contained in just one piece of this material were multiple tiny regions that each responded to magnetic and electrical stimuli differently.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-new-kind-of-computer-chip-silicon-may-be-replaced-by-new-material\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-new-kind-of-computer-chip-silicon-may...-material\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the forefront of computing technology for decades, silicon-based chips\u2019 reign may soon end, as today\u2019s chip designers are looking for other materials that offer more options and more amazing abilities than the silicon we all know and love. This new trend has spurred the guys at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to develop what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38049,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions\/38049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}