When it comes to computers,
humans have an insatiable need for speed
with our current designs,we are starting to approach some fundamental limits on how fast they can get
well,what if there was a different kind of computer
one that ran faster used less energy
and all the while cut back on pollution from electronic waste
that's all science fiction
it's probably one of the things you will see a science labs
process the little we can put it in
this is because it is cheap and it is easily accessible to everyone
it also has natural chemical properties that make it a promising foundation
for a new kind of environmentally friendly computer component
being developed in the Pacific North West.
אלקטרוניקס גנרל produce so much טוקסיק וייט.
like it is a devastating amount of electronic waste that occurs.
The world produces about fifty million tons of electronic waste per year.
פרסי,
מיני פרס אנפילס.
instead of materials סיליקון א קיוס
would make recycling easier and lessic
because honey break down in water
I would love to see this stepping stone electronic clean
was
actually getting organic materials commercial use
the team building is something relatively new in the world of electronics,
it's called a
port of the words memory and resh essential for computers.
chemical characteristics needed to make
a big
molecule
in the material
and molecule
in order to make the team focused on because it's doesn't
traditional materials,
producing actually benefits the environment.
we are going to drop honey on it.
a
she'll make the memorister by sandwiching the honey between two metal electrodes
you have metal
insulator metal.
the memorist combination of memory and electricity resistance is unique in electronics,
but there's another place where this combo is quite common
in our brains.
our brains are full of nerve cells called neurons and when we learn neurons create connection between each other,
the point where the neurons connect are synapses
when we hear a new piece of information a small bridge is built across the
bridge is our memory
the more we hear the information repeated the more robust that memory bridge becomes
and at the same time
dual purpose is a huge
and helps the most efficient computers on the planet.
team works the same way
it builds bridges through the honey when exposed to certain levels of electricity,
that's the data processing
the electricity stops flowing the bridge remains intact,
that's the memory
if you reverse the flow of electricity,
the memory is wipe clean.
theory
that we
need to move
the little bit.
No contact.
there you go.
They'll be able to track the honey memrers performance through a read out on the computer.
the
graph shows the bridgeing through the honey.
dat is written in the memory.
yes.
right now our device
simulate single neuron single synapse,
but
we want to integrate those devices together
and then this will
behave like our
our brain.
This is the idea behind neuromorphic computing
a new revolution in computer design.
This is a building block,
like this is a synapse from my brain.So by combining millions of devices like this,
then I can build a neuromorphic chip which can actually do the
computer a super computer can do but within
hundred times faster and using thousand times less energy.
pretty much every computer we use is based on a design that's eighty years old,
architecture.
In this design the part of the computer that processes information is separate from the part that stores it.
This conventional computing system consumes a tremendous amount of energy,
they require time,
so they are slower.
Neuromorphic computers solve this bottleneck in part
by having the processor and storage all in one place.
I want my research to provide
a solution.
that is what the team is doing.
component of
a computer system that's more energy efficient than any we've ever seen
the team is taking computers into a faster
and cleaner
new age.
I'm actually extremely fortunate to have been raised and grown up in the Pacific North West that cares about the environment
to this level where I can do research
that could truly help the environment in a way that
really hasn't been explored before.
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