When I was at university, we did a spoof lecture to the first years introducing wood chips :)

let's overclock the plastic SoC and see if it melts

Plastic arm sounds like a prosthetic company

Man, the future is going to be amazing ... if we can get there.

Plastic is so today. Waiting for the day when potato chips can run crysis

I'm kinda interested in seeing an ARM microprocessor combined with a TFT, maybe even OLED display on single sheet of plastic. With what was shown in this video, it sounds actually within the reach. Could work as anything from clock, digital thermometer, adjusting and showing expiration date, calendar you can slap on the surface of a mirror and so on...

A rolling 'Use By' date would be pretty neat. Mom: "Johnny. why did the milk go down by 5 days?! Did you leave it on the counter again?!"

Bringing "MicroPlastic" to a whole new level

Combined with medical sensors for diabetes or, for example, blood pressure stick-on patches, a computing device on plastic could really help save lives and cost.

The spy capabilities of this is insane.

Presumably thinner and lighter substrate. So although its bigger than its sillicone cousin. if its lighter it means a great leap forward for aeronautoics and space flight. 3D chip design on polymer substrates would technically be printable. So you could just have the raw materials and a printer to repair components on a ship. Instead of having to take spares up with you.

A fully functional Cortex-M0+ microprocessor seems impressive, but I would love to know about thermals interactions on these kinds of chips.

How is it powered, and how does it take inputs?

Gary can confidently say the world is not flat because he knows flat earthers will never click on video titles that start with silicon cpu and he is not gonna loose a single subscriber

Great to see great development like this

Hi Gary, can you please expand on plastic substrate conductivity? Thank you

This is great but I don't think adding plastic processors to plastic food packaging will reduce waste if not amplify the impact on the environment. We already can't recycle all of our plastics because there's so many different types, adding a chip on it would be a disaster

Could be interesting for wearables and bionic augmentation.

Will it not wilt from heat generated by the chip?

Will the chip melt on high temperature since it is plastic?

Gareeee which company makes tft. Is that tft arm low power like cmos.

A good power source is the "usual problem" for such mass deployment of "smart" circuits in packaging and so on.

This is awesome. How come did I not see any mention of that?

Great content I'd love to ask questions about more details of your thought on this product and tech

Gary. commenting from RSA. This is extremely on the cutting edge of tech and science as is all your uploads. Keep it up as you inspire a younger generation. and we need more teachers like you. I am hoping to start my own channel one of these days but I have been procrastinating. I have Live/Studio Filming Experience and Audio Training and Photography, I am my own Artist without a platform or content any suggestions.

Gary can you do a quick video on how ZTEs memory fusion tech works?

What about cost? Plus how is it reusable if the chip is not reprogrammable?

Great, like we need more plastic produced for some performance gains.

how does heat dissipated with a plastic material?

So I had seen this mentioned before, but what about power ? I think flexible batteries and flexible solar panels exist, so combine them and you can have that continues monitoring ? How big would that square need to be ?

Can't turn off individual pixels on LED displays, can you?

yes what about power though?

What about the processor can wrapped around a small size battery that fits into your glasses? This maybe can reduce the bulk of wareables and maybe AR/VR glasses

Transparent, nice!!!!

We have arrived at the Jetsons episode where Elroy was bugging his mom to get a certain brand of cereal because the box could be used as a computer when the food was gone.. Back when I was a kid, a couple of times records were put on the back of a box. It was the Archie's as I recall and I had two different records. (Of course, nothing stopping anyone from putting computer software on the record..)

When you buy your next CPU, they'll ask of you want paper or plastic.

Thank God that unlike silicone chips, potato chips will never become obsolete!

This Plastic CPU iwill resistant to an Electro Magnetic explosion (EPN) ?

*GARY!!!* Good morning Professor! Good morning fellow classmates! Stay safe out there everyone!

How how about having a 200 pages book who’s content can be changed so that can be reused and does not contain ad no internet just like a book

Cool the melting cpu meme could be a real thing 🤣

One day we''ll be breathing these things (plus the battery). Effectively electronic dandruff.

Will this plastic SOC chip be reprogrammable or will be only One Time Programmable only ? If it will be reprogrammable, then it will be disruptive & replace a lot many things...

Next thing we will be 3D printing our own CPU's :)

Amazing news!

uhhh will it melt tho

I'm certainly intrigued by plastic chips, but I'm not seeing the application yet. You can do the example food expiration chip in silicon just fine. Where's the power going to come from? Not a plastic battery. Your yogurt container is going to have a nasty metal battery that you can't just throw in the trash (or recycle easily). I also wonder what kind of wires are going to bond to the pads on that plastic chip and stay reliably attached with all the flexing.

Gary, Linus just made a video on the difference between high density and low density ram. And while he did try to break it down and make it understandable, I find myself unable to tell after whether the RAM I'm shopping on Amazon is one or the other even with pictures of the actual ram on front and back. Could you take a crack at it and particularly explain how to spot the diff when buying

amazing!

Wow, biodegradable plastic chips. Maybe they can do the same thing with a battery and then an entire smartphone or a laptop.

is it waterproof?

Gary what phone do you use, please respond...

I do not think it will make silicon cpus go away, but might be useful in cheap devices or even demo devices printed out in a catalog, playing video games from a video game magazine might be one future possibility, or gatcha game being literally and physically sold to you in stores or given away as leaflets through such plastic devices, without the need to installing it on any Android device, well the uses might be complex and even surprising even enhancing matketibility of certain types of traditional hardware. People could literally take the entire phone store in a catalog and try out different types of device through a store catalog, if you combine it with e sim technology it can even make cheap demonstration technology for expensive devices.

This is huge. It means they should be able to integrate rather big capacitors into the substrate, meaning full devices on a flexible substrate.

@Gary Explains - How do you think these will be powered?

Amazing.

The substrate used is plastic instead of silicon wafer, and because of that the logic gate has to utilize TFT process to build. The main draw back of this combination is power-consumption and CPU operation efficiency which is very bad. The CPU has to run under 20kHz and consume a lot of electric current, which is not good for IoT applications.

Welcome to the future! We still don't have flying cars, but we have do programmable Kick Me stickers!

I want smart materials, smart piping, smart walls. They would report damage or leaks. They would report temperature. They would report how they are structured. They would report stress levels. They would facilitate communication (no wifi or blue-tooth, they talk to each other by touching each other). The saying "if walls could talk the stories they would tell" would be real.

bold of you to assume that food manufacturers want us to not waste food

Where are these things going to get their (meagre) power from, I wonder? Also, will they communicate over wi-fi? Will my old tubs of yogurt form a mesh network?

Plastic melting point vs silicon melting point. Processors get very hot.

It seems a bit backwards to me, the wafer is silicon because it's silicon that becomes the transistor gates by etching and doping. Then again, since the whole lithography process is so complicated and expensive, maybe thin film transistor based logic does make sense economically. But the substrate doesn't matter at all, as long as it's reasonably flat and stable.

This can be an answer to silicon substrate shortages

Did I miss the explanation of how you power these plastic chips?

What about the heat? This is insane.

The dream having transparent plastic components all the way and phones are just a pice of transparent glass

I foresee a heat problem here.

So they made a plastic compound with the same valence electron propery of a silicon/germanium/GaAs but not as bonded as a carbon? Interesting.

Uh, what happen when Over heats?

Imagine that your phone’s casing is made of its processor.

We seriously need plastic biodegrading technology somehow

I have chips in my microwave everyday, love them yummy I get my chips from Iceland and I believe McCain do them as well : )

Smart cloths that can diagnose a high temperature or much other illnesses.

I was so hoping he would show us a working example.

Getting rid of heat is going to be fun.

Can it run crysis?

Wow, this sounds so cool. The future really is now.

Is this a technology looking for an use? The examples given here need power and long term memory. BTW, what happened to refridgerators ordering refills?

Imagine this on a credit card, we could do some epic stuff

’We can recycle it as it's plastic', sounds familiar

lol not thinking out side of the box here. sure good uses for it. but the main thing its "flexable" I can see this used in bionics(prostetic limbs and even part of skin graphs.) and even in drones and space probes where space is limited in the shell design. instead of having to design everything around the square shape, of current systems. can make mini probes that are actual electronic equipment like a Volt meter that are self contained inside the probe itsself.or to monitor anything, tempature, pressure, liquid levels. you can slap it on any surface and not have to worry about having the room for it. say like on a pipe that you want to monitor the tempature of. even a wearable heart monitor that is a kind of skin graph. now that would be useful for human space exploration would not need all those wires and skickey patches for the wires to connect to.and that is built into the suit that would not add a bulkey weight or hamper range of motion. anything that needs an Odd 3d shape over a larger area. same for Altheates. built into their workout clothes. that can monitor their health. blood presause, heart rate, breathing, pulse, even O2 levels, core tempature. how many times had we heard that a high school, college althleate collapsed and or died while working out? too many. this could be a way to monitor a workout of a person. and let you and a choach know their maybe a medical condition starting to happen and can just stop or get medical attention before it becomes serious and deadly. back to the other. with this flexable controller a designer only needs to worry about how to place the mechanacal hardware, and power supply which now has more room. for it can now be say placed over the curveature of a motor. instead of having to have it on its own flat surface area.

Great. Even more dependence on oil.

I guess? However doesn't plastic tend to melt at rather low temperatures?

The next step is propably chips that use light

Because, as we all know by now plastic is the future and you find it in the see and pretty much everywhere in nature.

I wonder how they handle heat. Thermal throttling a plastic chip... hmmm.

Smart Breast Implants > ShapeShifters (TM) one size fits all occasions

but wouldnt that be harder to cool as plastic is a very bad insulator? like burn from inside out

Let me learn to program avr usb isp bios rom first

We shouldn't use plastic chips on disposable crap... Nobody would recyle those

When I was in university, we did a lecture to proof, introducing Potato Chips :)

more diversified materials use for processor... ^__^

This is going to change the world.

I need circuits on potato chips

There are definitely good and valid points of its advantages but aren't we trying to eliminate the use of plastics instead of finding for use for it? I get that it can be reused and all but do people reuse all plastics in the world, right now? Just a thought :) It's still a cool thing :)

This sounds like a "toaster-radio". A solution in search of a problem.

Silicon is a semi-conductor while plastic is an insulator so how does it actually work?

More plastic... technology of the future... Imagine, how heat-resistant this plastic would be, so hard to recycle. I would be more thrilled with graphene technology or something that is more natural friendly, but if they create plastic that biodegrades or can be safely processed, then maybe I'll be convinced.Anyway, will see.

Now if we could 3D print those plastic chips...