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Mushrooms May Replace Metal in Future Computers — And You Could Build One At Home
(www.discovermagazine.com)
I lost count of the ways this article misrepresented and misinterpreted the underlying research.
No, it does not "replace the metal in future computers" the thing it's promising to replace is specific kinds of non-volatile memory which is typically made from specially doped and patterned silicon with metal interconnects. Replace the silicon part does nothing about the metal part and it still requires the metal interconnects to do anything interesting.
No, memristors alone are not a good stand alone memory storage devices.
No, a <6KHz with <90% accuracy is not a "grow at home replacement" for modern computing memory systems operating at >2,000,000KHz signal speeds with >99.999999999999% accuracy rates (measured as ~10^-12 bit error rate).
Cool research, potentially interesting applications to neuromorphic computing but FUCK this blatant misinformation slop.
