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Semron wants to replace chip transistors with ‘memcapacitors’
Semron is a German-based startup developing a new chip design that's 3D -- and packs 'memcapacitors' as opposed to transistors.
Semron aims to leverage the heat-reducing properties of the electric field to place as as many as hundreds of layers of memscapacitors on a single chip — greatly increasing compute capacity. In a 2021 study published in the journal Nature Electronics, researchers at Semron and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics successfully trained a computer vision model at energy efficiencies of over 3,500 TOPS/W — 35 to 300 times higher than existing techniques. With infrastructure-hungry large language models conquering the world and Moore’s law reaching the limits of physics, a massive bottleneck in computing resources will shape the years to come.
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