Plug-and-play hardware, anyone?
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Imagine if hardware could be upgraded with new features just as easily as software.
Researchers at MIT havedesigned a modular chipthat uses flashes of light to convey information between its components.
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“We genuinely hope that such a chip will be usable and scalable.”
These are spread across different layers and can be stacked or swapped in as required to assemble the chip.
Do they need tight temperature control?
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Are they sensitive to vibrations?
These are just two of the many questions that’ll need to be explored further, explained Dr. Cohen.
“Our proposed hardware architecture will provide high versatility of edge computing in the future.”
