A schematic illustrating the difference in the current deterministic CMOS computer (a), near-future heterogeneous version of the probabilistic computer, and (c) the final form of the probabilistic computer fully based on the spintronics technology. The table on the right side represents the comparison between them in terms of the chip area, energy consumption, and manufacturability. Credit: Shunsuke Fukami and Kerem Camsari
Researchers at Tohoku University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have unveiled a probabilistic computer prototype. Manufacturable with a near-future technology, the prototype combines a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit with a limited number of stochastic nanomagnets, creating a heterogeneous probabilistic computer.
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