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Foldable smartphones are gradually gaining market share, but there are no smartphones that can be bent yet. One of the causes is chips such as system-on-chip (SoC), which is the heart of smartphones.
The tip is made of hard silicon and cannot be bent. However, the chips announced by Arm are made of plastic and are flexible.
Manufactured with polyimide, a type of plastic
This Arm bendable tip is manufactured using polyimide, a type of plastic, and metal oxide thin film transistor technology.
The chip is equipped with a CPU core, Cortex-M0, 128 bytes of RAM, and 456 bytes of storage.
The number of gates indicating the size of the chip is more than 18,000, which is more than 12 times the number of the most complicated bendable chips in the past.
Expected to be applied to the healthcare field, etc.
This plastic chip is currently only equipped with a low-performance CPU core called Arm Cortex-M0, which is still insufficient to drive smartphones and smart watches.
However, it is expected to be applied to healthcare devices, smart labels, smart packages, and various IoT devices that are in close contact with human skin, and may be used in bendable smartphones and smart watches in the future.
Source: Nature via Android Authority
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