What’s New: Today, “Natu­re” published a rese­arch paper on the next gene­ra­ti­on of logic devices aut­ho­red by rese­ar­chers from Intel, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cali­for­nia, Ber­ke­ley, and the Law­rence Ber­ke­ley Natio­nal Labo­ra­to­ry. The paper descri­bes a magne­to-elec­tric spin-orbit (MESO) logic device, inven­ted by Intel. MESO devices have the poten­ti­al to lower vol­ta­ge by 5 times and ener­gy by 10–30 times when com­bi­ned with ultra­low sleep sta­te power, as com­pared to today’s com­ple­men­ta­ry metal-oxi­de-semi­con­duc­tors (CMOS). While Intel is pur­suing CMOS sca­ling, the com­pa­ny has been working on com­pu­ting logic opti­ons that will emer­ge in the next deca­de for the bey­ond-CMOS era, dri­ving com­pu­ting ener­gy-effi­ci­en­cy and allo­wing per­for­mance to grow across diver­se com­pu­ting archi­tec­tures (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »