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Title: Reconfigurable transistors
Post by: Dakkahun on December 13, 2020, 02:14:17 pm

New development in transistor technology:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/atomically-thin-material-make-transistors-that-can-reconfigure-on-demand/ (https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/atomically-thin-material-make-transistors-that-can-reconfigure-on-demand/)

I see another possible use case beside theirs: replacement for FPGA.

Whats your opinion?

Title: Re: Reconfigurable transistors
Post by: bob91343 on December 13, 2020, 09:31:42 pm

Blue sky dreaming, typical of ivory tower scientists who feel the need to justify their existence.

Title: Re: Reconfigurable transistors
Post by: David Hess on December 13, 2020, 11:25:11 pm

Floating gate silicon transistors solve the same security problem.

Title: Re: Reconfigurable transistors
Post by: Cyberdragon on December 14, 2020, 02:00:25 am

Quote from: Dakkahun on December 13, 2020, 02:14:17 pm

New development in transistor technology:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/atomically-thin-material-make-transistors-that-can-reconfigure-on-demand/ (https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/atomically-thin-material-make-transistors-that-can-reconfigure-on-demand/)

I see another possible use case beside theirs: replacement for FPGA.

Whats your opinion?

Not even gonna look, let me guess, another form of "memristor". ::)

I mean, I believe components like that will have major applications in the future of hardware neural networks, but currently not much practical uses.