Current Single Story Circuit Card Vs. Stanford High-Rise Chip (IMAGE)
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The image on the left depicts today's single-story electronic circuit cards, where logic and memory chips exist as separate structures, connected by wires. Like city streets, those wires can get jammed with digital traffic going back and forth between logic and memory. On the right, Stanford engineers envision building layers of logic and memory to create skyscraper chips. Data would move up and down on nanoscale "elevators" to avoid traffic jams.
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Wong/Mitra Lab, Stanford
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