Looking to further improve the energy efficiency of electronics, Swiss researchers have come up with an in-memory computing component based on 2D materials.
Researchers from EPFL stepped into unexplored territory by creating an in-memory processor based on a 2D material. With in-memory computing already an emerging strategy to cut down on the energy needed for digital signal processing and the implementation of artificial intelligence models, the use of 2D materials could further lower energy bills.
Today’s universally adopted architecture, devised by John von Neumann, spends a lot of energy shuttling data between memory and processor. This physical separation between components that process data and components that store data has long been a necessity, as it simply wasn’t possible to combine both in a single component.
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