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The Future is Plastic Chips! Plastic Arm

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Silicon Chips Are So Yesterday - The Future is Plastic Chips!
Gary Simms wrote: Today's processors are built on silicon. But are there alternatives? It turns out you can build flexible electronic devices using a plastic substrates with thin-film transistors (TFTs). Arm, in partnership with PragmatIC, has built a fully functional Cortex-M0+ microprocessor including the interrupt controller, IO, RAM, and ROM on plastic. It is called PlasticArm!
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