Charge-density wave processor technology touted for power efficiency

[the_leander]

Researchers at UC Riverside have received $1.5 million from the NSF and other sources to study a more power-efficient processor that encodes data with charge-density waves (CDWs) rather than electrical currents. A prototype for a CDW-based computer has already been built, showing promise for processors that could "drastically reduce power consumption and increase speed in the next generation of computers," claim the researchers.

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[cecilia]

nice!