Flexible Displays have been doing the rounds recently, but now flexible microprocessors are getting ready and seem viable.Researchers from IMEC have created cheap (1/10th the cost of silicon chips), bendable microprocessor by layering plastic substrate, gold circuits, organic dielectric and a pentacene organic semiconductor to create a 8 bit logic circuit with 4000 transistors.
This flexible chip can execute 6 instructions per second, though sounds slow it definitely is a great start and can pave way for lot of interesting gadgets in the future. This could also make flexible displays and their implementation in commercial applications lot cheaper.
Author: Vinod
Source: Engadget
Hmmmmmmmm.... :-)
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