Head-spinning chip research at UCLA

Head-spinning chip research at UCLA

By Network World Staff

Bill O’Reilly’s got the No Spin Zone. Engineers at the UCLA have a Nano Spin Zone.

Three professors have created nanoscale semiconductors that use “spin-wave buses” as a virtual interconnect. The researchers believe that the creation of these “spin-wave” nano-packets can be used to build a fully interconnected network of processors on a single chip.

Traditional information processing technology devices simply move electric charges around while ignoring the extra spin that tags along for the ride. But these so-called spin-wave buses put the extra motion to work transferring data or power between computer components.

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