Chinese scientists develop atoms-thin chips to boost computational power

SHANGHAI, April 4 (Xinhua) — As silicon chips approach the limits of their physical scale, scientists are pioneering ultra-thin designs to boost computational performance.

A Chinese research team has developed a semiconductor microprocessor just a few atomic layers thick. The chip, WUJI, is a 32-bit RISC-V processor based on two-dimensional semiconductors.

RISC-V is an architecture known for being free and open-source, and for its design flexibility and low power consumption.

The microprocessor has 5,900 transistors and a complete standard cell library containing 25 types of logic units, and can perform addition and subtraction operations on up to 4.2 billion data points, allowing for the programming of up to 1 billion…