That means starting again from the beginning. A few years ago, his team began designing plastic chips that contained dozens of transistors, then hundreds, and now, as reported in Nature on ...

And can plastic chips be part of the solution? It’s no secret that silicon-based semiconductor production is not particularly environmentally friendly. In addition to using harmful chemicals and ...

Arm says this will create a new “internet of everything,” with chips integrated into “more than a trillion inanimate objects over the next decade.” Plastic-based chips have major drawbacks ...

While the company concedes that plastic semiconductors are unlikely to replace silicon chips anytime soon, it argues the technology could lead to a new generation of low-cost smart appliances.

Dutch researchers have come up with plastic chips that will conduct electricity. Cellphones break when dropped because the conducting paths in the chips get all bumped out of shape (unless that ...

The washing machine is called the Xeros and it “uses thousands of reusable plastic chips to remove and absorb dirt,” according to MetaEfficient. One cup of water and one cup of detergent are ...