They create a chip capable of storing and processing data in the same place

One of the great bottlenecks of computing in particular and technology in general lies in the need that nowadays any electronic device has to carry data from non-volatile memory or storage to RAM so that later the necessary packages for information processing, they are transferred to the processor that will later return them to RAM and, when they are no longer necessary, to ROM.

As you can see, it is a constant passage of information from one site to another that, although it seems that it does not take time, a long time on a computer scale and, due to this, it should not surprise us if we meet with teams of researchers that today Today they work in this field trying, as much as possible, that these times are reduced to the maximum. With this in mind today I want to introduce you to the idea behind the chip ReRAM o Resistive RAM.

Thanks to ReRAM, much larger volumes of data can be processed in less time.

Basically and without going too deep what has been achieved is unify on a single chip a DRAM memory with a processor. Thanks to this it is possible to considerably reduce the size, increase the power and even make these memories much more efficient in terms of energy. As you can see, practically everyone could benefit from this advance, from local consumers to the business sector where every minute can cost a lot of money.

As stated Rainer weser, researcher in charge of the development of this project and doctor in Aachen University (Germany):

These devices are energy efficient, fast and can be miniaturized. Using them not only to store data but also for computing opens a whole new horizon towards a much more effective use of information in technology.

At the moment we are only talking about a job that works perfectly at the laboratory level, now we have to get funding to create the first test prototypes and make them capable of process much higher volumes of information in different formats.

Further information: New Atlas