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Waste Heat Becomes a Computing Medium in New Analog Chip Research
MIT-led researchers say microscopic silicon structures can use a device’s own waste heat to perform analog computation, hinting at a new path for thermal sensing and low-energy signal processing.
Key Takeaways
- Researchers encoded information as temperature rather than electrical bits inside microscopic silicon structures.
- The system performed a simple matrix-vector multiplication with more than 99% accuracy in many cases.
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DT Editorial Team··via technologyreview.com