« The Methanol Economy | Main | Global warming reaches ‘tipping point’ - Daily Times »
March 10, 2006
Saving energy with probabilistic chips
As CMOS technology reaches the nanoscale level, researchers are looking at 'noise' and other perturbations. And some of them at the Georgia Institute of Technology have taken advantage of this 'noise' to achieve incredible energy savings by a factor of more than 500 in simulations with their probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS) chips. Such embedded chips could be used for specific applications such as video or audio signal processing within a year -- if industrial partners agree to use this technology.Posted by dymaxion at March 10, 2006 01:53 PM