Researchers agree in combining computing and data storage in a single 3D chip!...

                   

As the capacity of computer chips to slow down the abundance of data slowed, researchers, including one of Indian origin, developed a 3D slide to address the situation. Today's computers consist of a chip for computing and another for storing data. As increasing amounts of data are analyzed, the limited rate of data that can be transferred between the chips creates a "bottleneck" connection.

The new model slide, detailed in Nature, uses multiple nanotechnologies, along with a new three-dimensional computer architecture, to reverse this trend. "The new three-dimensional computer architecture provides a dense and precise integration in computing and data storage, and Bottleneck has vastly surpassed the data transfer between chips," said Subhasish Mitra, a Stanford University professor.

Researchers also integrated more than 1 million randomized RAM (RAM) cells, a new type of memory storage, and two million carbon transistors for processing, making 3D computer engineering dense.

Philip Wong of Stanford said:

 The logic of carbon nanotubes can be more energy-efficient in size than today's silicon logic. Similarly, RAM can be more dense, faster, and more energy efficient. "There is a great advantage to finding that a new chip is compatible with Silicon infrastructure today, both in terms of manufacturing and design.

Max Schulaker, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said:

 Technology can not only improve traditional computing, but it also opens up a whole new set of applications that we can target.