New 2D chip breakthrough may crush silicon chips forever

China has begun mass production of next-generation processors based on molybdenum disulfide instead of traditional silicon semiconductors[1]. According to Professor Li Hongge’s team at Beihang University, these chips merge binary and stochastic logic to achieve better fault tolerance and power efficiency for applications like touch displays and flight systems[2].

The breakthrough came through developing a Hybrid Stochastic Number (HSN) system that combines traditional binary with probability-based numbers[2:1]. This innovation helps overcome two major challenges in chip technology - the power wall from binary systems’ high energy consumption, and the architecture wall that makes new non-silicon chips difficult to integrate with conventional systems[2:2].

  1. AzerNews - China mass-produces silicon-free chips ↩︎

  2. SCMP - China starts mass production of world’s first non-binary AI chip ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  • ragas@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Without substantiating? I linked a Wikipedia article as a source, which explains quite a lot of the reasoning for choosing silicon.

    The only thing that you reiterate here is economics of scale and you haven’t provided any source that substantiates that there are other materials where the economics of scale might lead to a better and/or cheaper product.