Chip Combines Processor, RAM To Improve Performance Of Phones, Gaming Consoles

Smartphones are getting increasingly feature-rich and with that, the need for high performance chipsets is also increasing. For processors to perform at par with evolving smartphone technology such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, they will need to sort bandwidth issues between the processor and RAM. A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University might have a solution. It has developed a prototype processor made of Graphene carbon nanotubes, with a resistive RAM layer on top. The prototype effectively combines RAM and CPU, which will not only save space in a smartphone motherboard, it will also create better performance.