Researchers at MIT have taken the first small—but real—steps toward the next generation of processors, building the first RISC-V compliant processor powered by carbon nanotubes. The processor can handle 32-bit instructions and 16-bit memory addressing, and the team got it to execute a Hello World! demo. That’s a far cry from what silicon chips can do, to be sure, but it’s an important step.
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