Scientists work with carbon nanotubes to unite cpu and ram

The current trend in computing is on the way to uniting and miniaturizing all the components to the maximum, we have an example in the AMD Fiji and Vega GPUs that are committed to the use of HBM memory to achieve greater integration. Now scientists want to go a step further with carbon nanotubes.

Carbon nanotubes allow you to unite CPU and RAM on a single chip

AMD has managed to manufacture very powerful graphics cards with a very small size, we are talking about solutions based on the Fiji and Vega GPUs that use the modern HBM memory, this is placed next to the die of the GPU so that the amount of necessary space on the PCB, in the case of using more conventional GDDR memories the chips are quite far from the GPU and there are a much larger number of them so it takes much more space to place all the elements.

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Scientists at Stanford and MIT are researching to take the integration one step further, their goal is to unite the CPU and RAM in a single unit. The researchers have promoted a prototype that is based on the use of carbon nanotubes with a resistive RAM (RRAM) layer on top.

The team responsible for its creation ensures that it is the most complex nano-electric system ever built with the latest nano-technology techniques. The key has been in the use of carbon, since the use of silicon for the CPU is not compatible with the high temperatures that are needed since it is destroyed.

It is undoubtedly a very important step towards achieving greater integration of components, which would allow the creation of much more compact systems than the current ones with a large capacity. It seems increasingly clear that silicon has its days numbered.

Source: tweaktown