{"id":300679,"date":"2026-02-25T01:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300679\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:43:12","slug":"smaller-faster-smarter-chinese-transistor-ready-for-future-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300679\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller, faster, smarter: Chinese transistor ready for future AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled the world\u2019s smallest and most energy-efficient transistor in a breakthrough poised to anchor the next generation of high-performance <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI<\/a> hardware.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers achieved the feat in ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs), which function similarly to neurons in the human brain as they integrate memory and processing in a single unit, thereby reducing the time lost in data transfer.<\/p>\n<p>In conventional <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/semiconductors?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">semiconductor chips<\/a>, data storage and computation occur in separate areas, creating efficiency bottlenecks for communication \u201cacross the wall\u201d.According to Qiu Chenguang of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/peking-university?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peking University<\/a>, the \u201cin-memory computing capability of FeFETs aligns closely with the future evolution of AI chips\u201d.\u201cThe industry views them as one of the most promising devices for enabling brain-inspired neuromorphic computing,\u201d Qiu told Science and Technology Daily, the official <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ministry-science-and-technology-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ministry<\/a> newspaper.Qiu, with Peng Lianmao, a member of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/chinese-academy-sciences-cas?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/a>, led the team that developed the world\u2019s smallest and most energy-efficient ferroelectric transistor. Their work was published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled the world\u2019s smallest and most energy-efficient transistor in a breakthrough poised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,15782,363,364,5302,165118,165113,165110,165112,165114,111,139,69,1710,165117,165111,22472,165115,21451,165119,145,165116],"class_list":{"0":"post-300679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-chips","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","13":"tag-fefets","14":"tag-ferroelectric-layer","15":"tag-ferroelectric-memory-chips","16":"tag-ferroelectric-transistor","17":"tag-nanogate-fefet","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-peking-university","22":"tag-professor-peng-lianmao","23":"tag-professor-qiu-chenguang","24":"tag-science-advances","25":"tag-science-and-technology-daily","26":"tag-semiconductor-materials","27":"tag-sub-nanometer-node-chips","28":"tag-technology","29":"tag-transistor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}