The revolutionary new chips will make your next phone significantly smaller and smarter

The revolutionary new chips will make your next phone significantly smaller and smarter

New chip technology is changing the balance of battery efficiency and performance speed.  In the looming threat of major technological shifts, smartphones may be entering a new era powered by an unfamiliar technology: generating extremely subtle vibrations, similar to micro-earthquakes, controlled within the electronic chip itself. A joint research team from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Arizona, and Sandia National Laboratories has announced the development of a new generation of acoustic phonon laser chips capable of producing high-frequency surface sound waves, which scientists have described as "the smallest earthquakes imaginable." The study's lead researcher, Alexander Wendt, explains that these waves behave like earthquakes, but they only travel along the surface of a microchip, without any destructive effect. On the contrary, they can be harnessed to serve modern communication technologies. Seismic Waves… Microscopically Surface acoustic waves …