A magneto-electric transistor has been developed that curbs the energy consumption of any microelectronics incorporating it, and can reduce by as much as 75% the number of transistors needed to store certain data. It could lend those microelectronics steel-trap memory that remembers exactly where users leave off, even after being shut down or abruptly losing power. Many millions of transistors line the surface of every modern integrated circuit, or microchip–roughly 1 trillion manufactured in 2020 alone–from silicon. I don’t begin to understand how this works, but it could certainly be helpful.
Story Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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