Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

MIT News  June 8, 2020 To make memristors an international team of researchers (USA – MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, IBM, China, South Korea) first fabricated a negative electrode out of silicon, a positive electrode by depositing a slight amount of copper, followed by a layer of silver. They sandwiched the two electrodes around an amorphous silicon medium patterning a millimeter-square silicon chip with tens of thousands of memristors. When they ran the chip through several visual tasks, the chip was able to “remember” stored images and reproduce them many times over, in versions that were crisper, and cleaner compared […]