Boffins design bent CPU

TWO JAPANESE FIRMS have collaborated on a design for a central processing unit (CPU) which can be bent.

According to nikkei.net, the Semiconductor Energy Lab Co and TDK made the unit which is built on a plastic substrate.

It also only takes a quarter of the power of a conventional CPU and has radio controlled facilities.

The prototype only clocks 1MHz but hey that's not bad. We used to have a pretty fast AST 286 clones in the 1980s which only managed 8MHz. Power consumption is 0.6mmW said nikkei.

How did the boffins do it? Apparently they built a CPU on silicon and built on a glassy substrate and then flipped it like a pancake onto a plastic substrate. µ

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